What being melee really means

Being "melee" in this game means that you have shit target access when compared to ranged characters. In a league where every melee character has to slowly walk up to a ranged character in order to do dmg to them, there needs to be some sort of "band-aid" that lowers the advantage a ranged character gets from doing dmg to a melee while the melee is out of range.

Its a fact that there are multiple bandaids for melees right now. Some bandaids make the melees stronger than ranged characters. Other bandaids make the ranged characters weaker. Other bandaids involve differences in the benifits that some items give melees vs ranged characters and typically, the benifits are geared to favor melees.

So this means that melees get "special treatment". I understand this, but it doesnt feel right to a lot of gamers because it feels like favouritism and thats a constant complaint you hear from gamers on the boards. I am biased, but I wonder if most of these complaints are focused toward melee characters...hmm. Ppl say zed and lee are favorites or riot. Both are melee. Maybe its just because I am biased and remember complaints against melees. Maybe the special treatment and the resentment that builds are related. I think it may be both my bias and some correlation between special treatment and being melee character. But thats not my major point. Ignore this paragraph if you have to.

Anyway. I dont think that melees with really strong gap closers should get the same special treatment in the as a character like sion. I express this idea with the statement that a champion like fiora "isnt really melee. She is pseudo melee". And the fact is that she stands out from scion in a significant way, but still gets similar base stats like a high base movespeed and higher than average base dmg stats. She also has access to really efficient items like hydra and frozen mallet and she gets them at full effectiveness.

Thats not perfect balance. There needs to be a distinction between champions like fiora and scion as far as that melee vs ranged bandaid is concerned. The bandaid is really important for scion because it lifts him up to the level of the playing field. Its MUCH less important for fiora, and really just gives her an distinct, possibly overwhelming advantage compared to him because they both get the same bandaid. In her case, it raises the level of the playing field because she is on a higher level. Do you see what I mean?