“Complicated”/mechanical (Ksante, Zeri), simple (Vex, Briar, Naafiri), or gimmick champ (Viego) it seems like a large section of the community hates new champions just for being new. They’ll be perma banned on release regardless of strength, and people usually say something along the lines of don’t want to deal with new champions. So as someone who thinks new stuff is cool what’s the mentality of new champion haters? Mostly because it has little to nothing to do with whatever the champ is strong or not, most release with giga terrible WR and may even get hot fix buffed because they’re that bad. There’s just a section of the community who doesn’t want anything new?
Couple reasons imo:
Classic aversion to change, new champs are a new element added to the gameplay and people don’t like learning to play with or against new stuff
It might not be what players want, people to tend skew towards wanting more of the same thing, but it’s up Riot to make things that people don’t know they want yet
Game balance disruption, it takes a while for a champ to truly settle in the meta and even then long term health is a concern. As an example, Viego was actually mostly fine after his launch, however he started being an issue when he was finally enabled for pro play in the summer, like ban rate literally spiked in soloq after he started showing