User blog comment:Lukeatlook/Never Go Full Meta/@comment-8008166-20140714013918

Excellent Read! (and i never read xD), and I agree with the point of the essay that these games (lol, starcraft) can become very repetitive thus taking out the fun factor. However, I think Rito is doing a good job freshing up this stale meta.

By nerfing OP champions really hard (i.e. Khazix) this allows for other champions to rise in their place. This is also achieved by overbuffuing a weak champions. Its like every champions had their time in the spotlight. This changes up the champions you would use in the meta and the champions that you would face in the meta thereby creating new and fun experiences.

Also by realsing new champions it widens the champions pool however i fear that itmight one day become oversaturated and there would be too much champions.

I also like that riot brought in the featured modes. These modes add something fun and fresh to the game while denying it from you so you want even more and you want to come back for more. If they didn't rotate these modes they would become stale and stagnant and eventually forgotten. Theres a snazzy quote about not liking something until you lose it but i cant remeber.

But all these things make LoL seem just a litle bit fresh so that the casual and the Koreans would stay just for a bit longer.