User blog comment:BIA-Kaboose/The Problem Behind Balance/@comment-24242333-20131211145617

As SirAston said, Riot tend to focus on champions that appear in high-level gameplay. I think a lot of people have either had a favorite, near unplayed champion that suddenly jumped on the perma-banned list and then got nerfed, or know someone that was in that situation, just because pro players and/or high elo streamers played said champion quite effectively.

And frankly, this is really annoying sometimes. I'm lucky enough to play champion that appear only from time to time in competitive play, and so remain popular but relatively untouched, but if one of my favorite champion suddenly got nerfed because a very skilled player did crazy things with it, I'd be pretty pissed. Sometimes I wish Riot realised that there are WAY more average players than extremely good players, and that some nerfs will make a champion close to unviable for said average players, while the very good players will still be able to do very well with it; but most of the time, he will just go do crazy things with another champion...