“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?
The fact that you have to ban a champ because of poor balance just says it all.
Banning a champ should be more about what you don’t like to play against or whatever counters your champ.
Not whatever champ Riot decided to giga buff thus became 54% winrate S+ tier champ and just ignores for 5 patches in a row.
New champs being broken only benefit meta frogs that only care about freelo. It encourages playing something because it’s easily exploitable not because people actually want to grow with a champion and learn them.