geekevo wroteI don't play lots of LoL just couple of times a month, but flash on every hero is ridiculous and don't tell me flash can't be used for escaping use on the river to go to either sides or getting into turrets range it can also be used for chasing and maybe if you are lucky for initiation also when you reach a high mm ( not my experience a friends) expensive runes make a big diffrence to someone who chose to spend his points mainly on heros for a greater variety.
Flash on every hero is a waste of an extra utility that can be more useful. Using it as an escape tool is very rare and often gets you killed more then actually help you and you'd be wasting a 200+ cd in the process, it is used as such sometimes but not as often as you'd think unless by newbs ;) Besides as i said, takes less then a day to acquire. Another note is that a level 1 won't be matched with a lvl 12+, so I don't see the point of the argument here, you are always matched equally, except very rarely when you come near the edge of acquiring the full summoner rooster but even then you are still in your first week of casual newbiness, so it's quite silly to argue that this is pay 2 win.
Expensive runes do a matter at the end but by the time you fully grasp the gameplay of the game and are actually competitive, you won't be playing casually and be time picky, and this is why i spoke of the learning curve of the moba which is why this isn't fit to be mentioned as p2w either.
Another note, your being too picky on arguing that this is a pay 2 win, have u actually played a pay 2 win game? A real pay 2 win one which doesn't allow you to progress unless you actually dumb tons of cash in it. I'm not saying that games with certain boosts doesn't mean P2W but the margin in this one is just too far to even called one. There are many things to factor when deciding a free 2 play from a pay 2 win, don't jump the gun because of a minor long shot system that actually offers a reward system outside of the game itself. I can see that your game preference is different in gaming then the subject at hand.