Talk:Tryndamere/@comment-24324564-20150604160809/@comment-6281696-20150604173633

Not necesairly, champions aren't exactly the same even if they have similar mechanics, so the comparison usually doesn't hold up. And that's not even looking at the fact that the field isn't equal and that the team composition most definitly won't be. Plus there's still stuff like the bias towards the first player to make a move among other things.

Also, usually when people talk about "balanced" they're talking about more than a game simply being "fair". They are usually also talking about how mechanics shouldn't feel like cheating (so no I-win-buttons), or like you lose regardless of what you do (e.g. once had a match as teemo versus a AP malph, from level 6-10 I could not be even on the same screen as him since his combo would just oneshot me, at most needing an extra AA. Not because he had an advantage or anything, he just did that much raw damage with his full combo. Which was well lame.). And to be honest thanks to the focus on "plays" riot frequently ends up encouraging things that feel very cheap when you're on the recieving end because from the outside it looks rather cool.