User blog comment:Lukeatlook/Never Go Full Meta/@comment-10257787-20140713224714

A really well written essay, i enjoyed reading it -> 10/10

While i think you brought up a few very interesting points,  i hope that what safes LoL in the longterm is the fact, that Riot is evolving. While they aren't so fast in terms of nerfing/buffs things, they're about to correct a few things that lurked around for far too long. A few examples:

In Season 3, pretty much every champion released was stupidly op, they are now surprisingly good balanced. I mean, yasuo and braum needed a few tweaks, but that weren't melting your face for a few months, unlike champions like release rengar, kha'zix and elise...

They remove outdated things like a targeted 3 seconds hard cc + they add a tiny bit of skill to the in terms of adding more and more skillsshots. look at the last champions they released AND reworked. Nearly all of them are heavily skillshotbased. just look at xerath: He's now 3 times more intense in terms of hitting skillshots, but also just as much more fun.

they add items. yeah, that point doesn't seem big, but with the last update, they added an item which made a whole ton of tanky junglers viable again. maybe not in competitive scene, but it still helps a ton. With every new itemrelease, a few champions become stronger while others fall out of favor, which adds at least a little bit of additional diversity

they make more unique champions. I mean, you said that the only really unique champion in LoL are Braum and Yasuo, but they are both newer champs. The fact that riot has dropped their Releaserate means that everything they release is of much higher quality

Reworks. It maybe not a very objective view from my side, but i think the fact that they rework is huge, as all of their champions come out as healthy, fun champs which are played like new ones but still feel like our old beloved ones.

TL;DR: Imho Riot keeps evolving and so does LoL, which means that the game might go in directions we can't imagine yet, so im optimistic about the future!