Can Riot just face some reality?
Let's be honest--how often do you see games where a Shyv or a Lux or a Zed (and others) does bad? Sure they may not win because they have a lousy team, but for the most part, I never see them not pulling their weight and then some.
Riot has yet to figure out the relative values of damage, cc and mobility and tankiness. How much is one second of cc worth compared to x amount more damage on abilities than other players? What is the value of moblity like Riven and Yasou compared to other champions.
This is the reason we see such lopsided game play and super popular champions and then champions that are hardly ever played. Riot has no matrix to figure this stuff out to produced balanced champions.
If we had a god damn sandbox mode and could run full build champions againts each other to see which builds are more optimal, which builds are better for trades VS whatever you want to run it against, it would probably make the unbalanced nature of the items, the superior effectiveness of items on some champions compared to others, and the overall unbalanced nature of champions so obvious that these boards would explode with players asking Riot WTF.
We should already be asking Riot WTF