I see so many posts about issues with balancing champions, the ever doomed velkoz and other slow mages, the overflod of Mobility assassins and bruisers etc.
So why doesnt riot just make a rotating seasonal pool of champions (a selection of old champs and new ones in some shape or form but limited to say a pool of 40 per season). Then you break play into a, hearthstone-like or for that matter other TCG formatted “wild” and “seasonal” ranked, draft, etc.
Surely this would enable riot to put some problematic champs in a permanent “Hall of infamy” and see them.only played in “wild” and free up.some.design space as well as give seasons some more identity based on the champion pool?
Because this does not fix the issue you are trying to fix, only makes it worse. Having a wider champion pool makes the game harder to balance but more balanced at the same time.
Velkoz may suffer from assassins. So we may go towards a meta with zed mid. To whom someone can pick Nautilus mid and utterly fuck him. To this you may actually pick a velkoz to counter it.
Don’t take the matchups at face value just random examples.