I'm done

Over the past few years I have dedicated much of my life to this game. I have seen numerous balance changes and countless releases/reworks and for the most part I have retained my love of the game. I loved the idea of ranked queues bringing people together. It shows much of how human emotion can guide strategy and influence games. Overcoming obstacles like tilt in ranked has been frustrating, fun, and challenging all at the same time. This game has helped me grow as an individual and learn how to understand others better. That being said, the state the game is in at the moment is absolutely unacceptable.

I love support and bot lane, but this season has been the absolutely most grueling experience of my life. While I think we reached a reasonable meta towards the end of last season, I do understand where Riot was coming from when they intended to fix a few problems pertaining to assassins. Of course I knew season 7 was going to be bad at first with the "assassin rework" which aimed to make assassins healthy in terms of game play. Riot tried to express it's view that assassins have to be viable and able to do extreme amounts of burst while still having counter plays which allow persons of greater skill to be able to out play said assassins. I ask you this, where is the counter play? I understand that balance changes require time and allowing the game to show which champions are too powerful and those that are not. Yet, it has been months since the season started and we have seen no significant balance changes to bot lane or tanks to combat the high damage from both the mages and assassins.

I have friends who tell me their whole goal is to camp bot lane because it's "free kills". I agree. There are numerous champions that can 1 shot adc's with no repercussions or openings to take advantage of. This is primarily due to the lack of defensive items when it comes to being an adc. If you build defensively you automatically lose lane because the enemy can just build straight damage. As a support main I absolutely detest having to spam Zyra because she's so fricken broken she can 1v2. Aren't I supposed to be helping the team instead of going a champion that focuses on demolishing squishies so that bot lane can do something with a utility adc?

This all stems from a greater problem. Junglers have way too much influence. In the past junglers typically are strong but recently it seems as though they have 3 times the influence they have had before. Bot lane is way too squishy which allows junglers to just camp it and dive with insane amounts of burst. Once they get fed it's game over. I don't understand this meta or the reasoning behind it. I don't understand how in their right mind Riot could even begin to make the changes to this and after the changes not even reasonably attempt to fix the problems. I have played about 400 games in ranked this season and it falls down to 2 different matchups botlane. Varus + Zyra + Jhin + MF. That is, of course, if you want to win. IT has become extremely boring to me since I am forced into play one of a few champions bot lane. I don't even have a choice because if I pick otherwise I will just be bullied all game and get dove by the enemy jungler.

All this is normally fine because we've seen broken champions before and weathered the storm. This season however, the psychological repercussions of autofill, just damage clown fiestas, and the 1v1 mentality/culture Riot has developed are ruining the game. I understand that in the past players have had to main multiple roles, but we're spoiled from last season. Players get extremely tilted when getting autofilled and this leads to more flaming and toxicity in the game.

What are the possible fixes?

1. Remove autofill. I don't think anyone would complain about queue times after experiencing it again. If they do, who cares? People can wait 1-2 min longer for a game. In fact as a supp main my queue times have gone from instant to sometimes 5 minutes.
2. Make defensive items better- I can deal with the high burst, but there's no counter building for the items currently in the game.
3. Change tank supports up to make bot lane a healthier lane to be in. Tank supports can help by peeling for adcs and changing the game in terms of team comp. How do you do this? give them a sustain item in lane or buff relic shield to heal for more. I don't know but it needs to change.
4. Nerf champions with no counterplay. Rengar I'm looking at you(although the cc immunity nerf was glorious)This will change however if tanks are allowed back into the game. Rengar wouldn't be a problem with a good tank on your team.

This is a rant thread and I am sure I am wrong in a few areas, but for the time being I'm uninstalling this broken game. All the best to the toxic league community.