User blog comment:Hidden Sniper/Riot's hand in the meta as we know it/@comment-4530717-20120924200548/@comment-4743916-20120924205501

I personally think Riot is doing a good job of balancing compared to other games. There is always going to be a "top" set of champions based on the region the game is played in (Ez was considered OP in EU when he was considered crap in NA until after EU's maxing W concept got to NA) so honestly true imbalances are often rare. As for the top 3 ADs, they deserved those nerfs. Such huge burst early game and no real lategame tradeoffs are crazy.