Who are you and what have you done with League of Legends | A cerebral player's feelings on the game

Let me preface this by saying I am an Azir main. Been playing him since introduced, and hes been my most played ever since.

With that out of the way, here are my placement results mostly over 4 1/2 sessions:

Game 1 (Azir mid): Loss - Minimal Jungler impact main cause, short game Game 2 (Vi Jungle): Loss - I got caught out too many times, tried to force team to help by starting objectives alone instead of leaving them Game 3 (Azir mid): Loss - Had to solo carry against fed enemy nasus. I got caught later on and cost the game, medium game, almost reached 1v5 status Game 4 (Ezreal ADC): Loss - Thresh too reckless and Yasuo inting? ("I decide we should lose because I dont like Thresh, youre all toxic") Game 5 (Talon Mid): Win - Was rather disillusioned at this point, so chose Talon because why not have some fun. Relatively easy game as i got fed as christ Game 6 (Shen Top): Win - Intuitive bot picks (Cass carry Teemo Supp), but TL;DR Yas and Jax got fed as shit Game 7 (Ekko Top): Win - Zed and Twitch got fed Game 8 (Talon Mid): Win - Got reasonably fed, I could roam but Veigar couldnt, took a while to close but we assassinated the carries and won an easy teamfight Game 9 (Yasuo Mid): Win - Bit of a weird game, enemy team tunneled on me too often, too hard, then got rekt by pantheon and jhin Game 10 (Azir Mid): Loss - Was hoping to close out series with an Azir win. Enemy jungler presence far exceeded ours, enemy bot eventually rotated mid, trynd-hec duo baron at 24 mins lead to broken bases and the game shortly after.

So looking at this, I'm basically left with something along the lines of: "Why the fuck should I bother picking anything at all if it isnt strong early?"

Now maybe I've been a bit stubborn, and should've seen this much earlier, but good god what kind of game are we playing anymore? As far as optimal play is concerned, theres no damned reason to even TRY and pick a late game champion. You just get dumpstered early, or your teammates do. There aren't enough wards for anyone to protect themselves sufficiently, early game gold is fucking atrocious, and late game scalers simply take too damn long and need too many items.

The worst thing about my placements is that the talon and yasuo games were nowhere near as good as most of the Azir ones. The latter 2 Azir games I dealt the most damage in the game, was basically top cs in both, and held my own in lane despite MANY attempts to gank me. The Talon games I basically waffled through arbitrarily deciding "oh hey ezreal is kinda pushed up, I can probs kill that", insert parkour boing noises, +300g.

In the end its your game riot, i just want to know if youre okay with it being like this. I play Azir because I have a much easier time planning soldier movements than i do AA cancelling and key-comboing on riven, so you could say I'm more of a cerebral player, but frankly I don't feel like there's much place for me in the game right now. Theres really only 1 tactic worth using which is: "fuck comps, fuck planning, just goon-squad motherfuckers for free games". And there's no way to counter it because the tools people used to use to avoid these 'tactics' have been gated behind items specifically designed to either be accessible by only 1 group , or poor itemisation on all but another group .

You've already made it nigh-impossible to truly solo carry anymore, now you're approaching "You've handicapped yourself because you don't have a teammate playing with you to watch your back, ie deciding to play the game".