It will never be balanced because that's not how they maximize profits and entertainment. Games like MOBA's intentionally make it imbalanced so that the meta is constantly rotating. This shifts the desires of the playerbase, keeping them interested and paying money for new content / content to better entertain the new mode they are playing. This is a well designed process from many earlier games (Magic the Gathering is a great example - the power of each color is constantly fluctuating in standard with the clever release of color specific 'spike' cards), but this design ideology is a bit more insidious in more 'need to win' environments like MOBA's where new content is just stapled to the old, rather than doing brackets (correct me if I'm wrong though - I'm not too terribly familiar with league).

You're better off without league.
Only thing I want from it is rengar, and Renekton at my beck and call.
Those two were sexy.

The only reason why I currently stick around is because they're adding rotating game modes which means that URF mode, Poro King, Deathbots etc. are gonna become a more regular thing.

all mobas are fucking garbage with thier shit communities and highly competitive gameplay. I used to be in a streaming group but all they cared about was Mobas and was a bunch of elitist assholes because of it.

I will say this though:


Dat Twitch.

The main reason league will never be a balanced or "fun" game is because the devs think that they are the ones that design what the metagame is, they are specifically making champions or balancing them around what they want the meta to be. When by the very nature of games, metagame is defined by the players, it's just what everyone decides is the best way to play. Riot somehow in 5 years hasnt really learned that they cant just sit around telling players what the meta is or enforcing whatever players have already created, it's just such a frustrating design perspective. Nothing ever really changes, and when it does it's only so that it can fit more comfortably into the stale and ridged meta that they've established

I can thankfully give other mobas some credit for being ridiculous in the amount of things you can do effectively, but then at the same time most of them end up sacrificing fun and approachable gameplay for only dynamic gameplay. Honestly mobas as a genre havent really evolved in like ten years and personally I'm not actually sure why people play them anymore when it comes to the communities and all of the above. I feel like the only people that still play basically any moba are only doing it because A) they have a very good group of friends doing it, B) They are intent on going pro, or C) they are too invested to just stop

Whatever the reason happens to be, I'm in full support of peeps doing what they want to do as long as it makes them happy. I may not like em, but I aint about to take a raging dump on someone elses good time