The Obsession-Out: Bite and don't let it go.

[Sheras]

Oh I feel bad for all the champions who have never been viable in top level play. There are plenty you will rarely if ever see. Using the excuse people can make it to the top of soloQ but not actually make it into a competitive match which is an entire tier or two above soloQ is hilarious. The answer to overpowered champs isn't nerfing them until they are useless.

Let's look at characters you will not see being played competitively on a top tier team anymore because of their nerfs. Actually only 41 champions were picked last LCS split(or was it the one before).

Now Riot does reworks on champions that are considered "anti-fun"(yes, removing even more mechanics in the game making it more like bloodline champions) than considering making the other champions on a level with the most picked. They would rather nerf everyone until a nerfed character is considered strong again so they can nerf it again.

Over the course of the year and a half that LCS has been around, only 7 champions have never been picked in LCS. Brand, Fiora, Poppy, Rammus, Shaco, Sion, and Vel Koz (I think he was actually played about a month ago though in EU). Sion was played in the Battle of the Atlantic (TSM vs LemonDogs) Rammus was played in Summer LCS promotion series before by Dignitas (and they won). Brand was played often by former Curse Academy mid laner Only Jaximus in the Challenger League. So that leaves Fiora, Poppy and Shaco that have never seen pro play.

You can't judge the balance of League on the pro scene, they were doing that 4v0 tower pushing to start games for a bit, so what came into flavor were fast pushing champions. The pros do strategies that no soloQ team could pull off, that's why they pick the champions they do, they are best for their strategies.

The only anti-fun champion they changed was solo lane Soraka, and that was anti fun dude. If you didn't kill her in early levels, good luck. She had a ZERO COST ability with a silence, waveclear and a heal that gave armor. Take summoner heal on top of that and you dont kill her ever.