Regarding LoL, I think you’re right, and there’s two things to chief pick up on: one is that the champs are *interesting* but they aren’t imbalanced, they all have a flavour, a theme, a nice unifying look and feel but they also work mathematically as well as bringing flavour (which is, of course, what Rift failed to do). The other is that when the standards are high, it’s very noticeable when their champ balancing and ideas are really shit, which has been alarmingly prevalent recently: Darius was nerfed but is still great fun to play, Draven is just bizarre and Jayce is just, well, not fun to play against. When I’m playing AD Ezreal, it becomes disheartening to play against a champ who has a stronger, splash damage version of my basic skillshot, can completely negate my blink and who can just waltz up, smack me back with his hammer and then his supercharged ranged Q, take at least half my health then waltz back out whilst my combo is either too risky to use since it puts AS on CD or just too weak.