I'm gonna get downvoted for this but
Don't you hate youtuber's making these videos like "NEW KOREAN LUCIAN BUILD" with Black cleaver + Ghostblade and then you go in to a game with an 0 7 lucian on your team with this build.
Like look man I'd rather have a lucian 0 7 with his usual build instead of this "korean build" I might be wrong here but do some people think if a youtuber does well with this build they will as well? I just think it's silly and my point is unless you're really good with the champ, don't go this "korean build" then ask why isn't this working.
Look and I'm not hating on all these builds man, some of them are really good, but when people are gonna go into a ranked game and go 0 10 first timing the build then asking why isn't this working that's just dumb man.
So to clarify again I'm not hating on the build, it works really good but my real point is to not first time these builds in ranked. The youtuber part is something I'll get to now. I'm not sure if it's just me or when youtubers release something like this it promotes people into using the build which is not a good thing nor a bad thing but, (A lot of people might disagree with me here) it has big influence on balance. For example tank ekko which is still dominating but before the youtube videos of tank ekko came out I've never seen one tank ekko in my games, maybe others saw it but for me usually it's becoming a pattern for me. Then after the video might have been out for like a week or two, ban rates go up then most likely the champion will be fixed next patch (not saying ekko is fixed btw). For those who don't understand this is my diagram thing.
Tank ekko uncommon > Youtube video of tank ekko (made by big league youtubers) > Tank ekko very common, ban rates and play rates increase > Tank ekko becomes a problem, gets nerfed > play rates drop > ban rates drop
Now I DO NOT have any proof to prove this diagram, it's most likely false but this is the pattern of what I am seeing on most problematic champions, also I'm not saying tank ekko is balanced. I just used him as an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTGo24lsVHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbU6A9EFuxo
Here's some links to stuff I was talking about and the trend basically, wanted to use these as an example. Also I'm not hating on red, he's a cool dude.
Overall I want to poll something, does youtube league of legends youtube guides influence balance, heres an optional part if you say yes please explain why do you think it does influence, if you say no why do you disagree and do you think something else influences balance greatly?
Sorry for my english if theres any mistakes, I'm prepared for the downvotes because I don't feel people will agree with me here but I just wanted to say it and here some other opinions.