Talk:Kassadin/@comment-8468980-20150313045027/@comment-25904283-20150313060532

Many champions that you lised DID have their hey day.

Yorick was considered the most OP champion in top lane for nearly 2 seasons (2011 - 2012) (which coined the phrases "Yorick walks into a bar, there's no counter"). He only faded out in S3, and even then remained as a feared opponent in lane for everyone (including Elise - at the time the most OP top laner).

Diana was the strongest champion at release in history of LoL (yes, much more so than released Zyra, Jayce or Rek'Sai). She had way over 60% win rate. They nerfed her cruelly right after (making her shittiest champion in the game for about 1 month), then buffed her back right before S3, and thus made her S3 spring split most dominant mid laner (which was a really big feat, consider back then, there were OP Kha, OP Zed, OP Kayle...).

Ashe was the prime ADC in the league for 3 years from the beginning of LoL to late, late S2. Riot at one point even stated that beside her and Corki, there seems to be no other ADC in the game.

However, you do have a point in that popularity from the community does decides a champion's fate. Riot is a company, so they do have to follow the demand of the majority of customers one way or another. Once in a while, they do throw in some changes that bring back champions that seems to fall into obscurity (like their Alistar, Maokai buff in S4), but their focus will always be on the Ahri, Kass, Zed, Jax... where more people tend to talk/care about.