“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?
most people on reddit are older (grandpa gameplay) and don’t like to learn new things or to read the abilities of new champs, but lets be honest they don’t even read tooltips of the champs they play either … they just want to play 10 immobile point and click champs, so they are very negative towards new champions and mechanics in league.
lots of casual players just see a new champ and go “oh cool” and maybe try to pick it up if they’re interested in it.
it would be nice if they spent more time reworking older champs becuase there’s plenty to do there – i would like it if they slowed the release rate and improved existing characters