Real talk: can we get a balance pass over mage abilities gated by having 'somewhat shorter' range??

I'm not going to go Hashinshin-mode and repeat the "mages are blatantly overpowered" mantra, because that's just not true.

But the fact that every year or more often a new short-range midlaner (not always a mage, looking at ya tank ) appears to completely ruin toplane for at least a few patches (sometimes entire season, looking at ya tank ) is a problem.

Victor didn't start to ruin toplane because mages are overpowered, Viktor started to ruin toplane because he kept recieving buffs all year.

Riot needs to realize that buffing numbers ad infinitum won't always solve champions problems. No amount of shield-spam won't help survive a . It will only make them completely roll over matchups when they don't have the range disadvantage.