@Riot. You need to stop and just take a moment. Take this into consideration. It's about time.

Hello Riot,

I come to the creation of this thread with sorrow. I love League of Legends, I really do, but something happened. I'm not sure what, but the game's heart just.... Stopped

I'm not here to yell at you, or complain, but to point out a very clear message in a mechanical and analytical way: you need to stop making champions, and balance the game.

Whatever happened with meta, I don't even know, but even at this very moment I am still observing, analyzing, and gathering data and information as to what happened to LoL.

So, therefore, I am creating a project of my own, thus

Project Balance: Investigation

Any who, first thing I want to say is, stop designing champions. Not permanently, just for a bit. Please, Riot, step away for a moment and pour all your focus and energy into balancing the game. At least for a couple of weeks.

Now, for afk problems. Yea, time for some improvement on this. Face it Riot, low prio que's and bans may help stop afk's, but what about the players who were affected the most?

1. Take a moment and read this post thoroughly. The author explains, quite clearly, their complaints about 4v5. I have to agree, once it's 4v5, the game is already lost.

Now, look at this summoner's idea in the same post. I think it's worth a shot to try something like that. Create some sort of substitution system, when a player leaves the game, either let the other 4 leave without penalty, or allow another to join the game and take the leaver's place via a 'rescue' que. It will take work to figure out a thing like that, but something really needs to happen here. Otherwise, what else are you doing in the office, 12 hours a day 5 days a week? That's a lot of time.

-Another post here, the summoner says that you lose strictly because someone left the game, or you 'snowball' win because the opposing team had an afk.

2. A brilliant summoner took the time to explain in detail (in a non-rage way) what they think is wrong with LoL. I believe the article is pointing out what you need to work on, Riot, and not entirely why we're all quite frustrated with champion balancing. Please please read this whole post, and take into consideration the message.

3. Another summoner points out somewhat of the same things, just not as long. Emphasis on weak turrets and longer death timers (hint hint: not the best way to shorten games. Please.) Post

4. This post is good for what needs to be taken a look at. It's kind of spicy, but clear in the message. (Disregard the suggestion of firing Meddler. I think the poster stepped too far out on that)

5. "At this point, after the amount I've read, played, watched, and waited, I don't think there's any conceivable conclusion to the atrocious current balance state.

This is easy to fix. If someone on the balance team sees this, please consider it. I'm not trying to be cruel (I apologize if I come off that way). If some Rioter could drop in and give some info on the state of the balance team's playing schedule that would be fantastic, if I'm wrong so be it. But if this isn't the reason I think League is going to be in trouble for a long, long time." - from I think the balance team just doesn't really play the game.

Emphasis on the part "This is easy to fix". Regardless if its easy or not, it's time to take the reins, Riot.

Lastly, for this section of Project: Balance Investigation, I'll end off with a nice little truth-saying video here: There is a lot of people frustrated with League of Legends right now

I'm only collecting posts, and saying these things, and agreeing with what others are saying, because I love League of Legends, and I really want to see the game improve. Take a moment and consider the amount of upvotes some of the above posts have; one of them has over 520 upvotes. If that many people agree that something seriously needs to be done, then Just Do It.