Upcoming Nerfs, and the Future Nerf Cycle

Question to ANY Rioter that takes the time to read this: Was the formation of this "nerf cycle" intentional, or did purely appear naturally from nerfs and buffs to the original champion pool, gaining strength as new champs were added then "integrated"?

EDIT: My original title had the champs I reference included, so i didn't include them here facepalm the 5 are: Azir, Jarvan IV, Lulu, Gnar, Rek'Sai

Get ready for the nerfs guys. Also with Lulu, Riot has a history of doing that with champions that mainly play the support role, so they aren't to strong when they are supporting (and carry their bot lane to victory, a snowballing ADC's never good), side-effect-lose ability to do anything besides support. The other 4 are simply strong, and not coincidentally three are recent so they haven't fully entered into this unstable "nerf-cycle" Riot has going that pisses of the mains of "insert champion here" periodically over the seasons. just has the bad fortune of currently being rather strong due to all the changes in the jungle (items, camps, damage, etc.) and of course synergy with other champs on list cough cough. , he's the honorary mention. Now on to the long-term predictions of the nerf cycle.

He'll probably be nerfed (the as nerf isn't all, if he and others continue to be most of what mid lane Solo Que is, and they will be until we enter the next nerf cycle era) when Riot gets around to handling issues of balance in that area they created after they severely weakened most mana dependent mid laners, causing energy based and truly resource less ( -she's never been exactly that strong, if the enemy team has cc and mr but just wait, she'll be nerfed) champs to rise, most of which are assassins (interesting), following the assassins nerfs they'll still be stronger than mages until they fix mana regen to be more equal, so the ADCs will rise (already staple due to continuous dps they can produce, now ramped up with mobility from past nerf cycles) not being 100-0'd as often. Then following some dps buffs and adc nerfs, the bruisers and mages will rise (as by now the mana issue has been dealt with, and the assassins haven't been buffed to "compensate", and won't be until...). Then dps overall will be nerfed as tanks have become pointless due to the past stages of the nerf cycle (bruisers tanky, but do damage, but ADC nerfs have made them tanky enough but also better than tanks because they have damage). Then finally the tanks will rise, as naturally nerfs to the opposite, buffs to what is being "balanced" (and direct buffs to tanks). Followed by nerfs to tankiness overall, and increase in tank-busting/burning's necessity, causing now, the assassins to rise out of their niche, along with ADCs, as tanks are nerfed along with items, and both roles buffed for the bursting of the former and the dps of the latter (but basically the next assassin era, followed by ADC era as assassin are nerfed, on and on) .

So we can go through all of this again, starting from tank era, assassin era, adc era, mage era, the period between mr buffs, follows ad's overall nerf, more generally can be regarded as age of AP (hello again etc, you get the point) then bruiser era (all others nerfed, slightly stronger than tanks due to dps... wait a minute, this sounds familiar) tanks too weak in comparison to other roles, buff them and/or nerf others to repeat cycle.

Sidenote:Also the main nerfs I mentioned don't fit the model due to the variability in the system from new champions being continually added every few months. This predicts overall trends in the future. 4 are new, so still being balanced to fit into this cycle (logistical nightmares, even for all the fun they offer) and he's just the latest product of the jungle nerf cycle subset. honestly is not included here simply because he comes the closest to balance (similar to who comes the closest [if not fed] to only being able to assassinate once a team fight, he's an honorary mention). He's the Jack of All Trades, and correspondingly Master of None. He gets too nerfed, he loses the ability to do anything at all up to par (and becomes another extreme outlier outside of this system, like ), he's his own sort of logistical nightmare. Also his build variability (outside of ) is exactly what Riot want to achieve with most champions (though some will always have peculiarities due the their kits, , barring a rework, of course).

If you took the time to read to this point, thank you. I figured people would read more with pictures included :).