Originally posted by Heavy-Virus

Yeah I don't know why anyone would take a ranged mage now

This has been the case for aeons already. Assassins just keep getting buffed directly or indirectly and nothing is done about it. If you play safe, they roam and come back with a double kill and the lane is effectively over. If you play aggressive, the odds are stacked in their favor and good f**king luck trying to survive a gank as an immobile squishy mage. If you go for plates when they roam, they can simply wait in the bushes or beside them and make passionate non-consensual butt love with you while you're trying to take plates or you get destroyed in a second by assassin junglers just the same. And it they actually go bot, you better ping a billion times and write in all caps begging your bot lane to hug their turret because sometimes not even that is gonna save them, so you proceed to get flame nonstop that you didn't follow Katarina as Orianna lmao.

I like playing mages because I'm not a meta slave and I choose my characters based on their looks, playstyle and how cool I think they are since I like witches and that kind of stuff a lot. So here I am playing Lissandra while getting skullf**ked by Diana and her flock not being able to outpush them, outrade them, follow their roams or take them down without jungle help. But hey, at least she looks cool when she dies and turns into a statue that rapidly disintegrates and her B with the Coven skin makes some cool looking flowers on the ground and stuff, so there's that. Then I alt tab to reddit to read the hourly "mages are so Op omg" thread made by a Darius flair because Ryze dared approach 46% win rate and pros can make Syndra work well in competitive. So by the time you're finished reading them talking about how broken Zhonya's is because you can activate it and aggressively T-pose beside Katarina while she patiently waits for it to run out while flashing her mastery 7 with no cooldown before instakilling you and flaming you in /all, the grey screen is probably about to end and you're already back to business!

Originally posted by Magehunter_Skassi

You shouldn't care what the average player "feels" is good (which is where pickrate and banrate comes from).