Champion diversity predictions?

Swooshter·9/28/2016, 11:36:23 AM·1 votes·582 views

Just curious how diverse the champion pools used during worlds will be. In the past, there have been relatively lower diversity depending on the position. Do you feel it will keep with the low diversity, or will this finally be a worlds with more champs played? I am hopeful there will be diversity, but I feel the reality of it will be the same. 2-3 champs used for jungle, 3-4 ADC, 4-5 Top, 3-4 Supports and I will say up to 10 champs Mid.

Of course, this does not include any of the wildcard matches, as those tend to allow more range with champs, as they are looked at as "easier" wins by some.

10 Comments

TurquoiseYoshi9/28/2016, 7:25:25 PM2 votes

It's looking really good for bot diversity. ADCs and Supports are really diverse right now. Jungle will be the worst, with it being Elise/Nidalee pretty much every game, without bans. Top and Mid lane will be weird, as their meta has so dramatically shifted since playoffs that we don't really know what will be played.

Dynikus9/28/2016, 12:29:19 PM1 votes

It's going to be the same pool of 15-20 champions with the occasional off meta pick, at most 1-2 a game.

Earl Eulrich9/29/2016, 12:22:47 PM1 votes

top and jungle will be very small pools of ~4 stable picks mid could see some more diversity bot though really has good chances to see lots of difference, right now a lot of supports and marksmen are viable (though as it´s proplay, most teams will just stick to a certain few considered as save).

xJLx MCHammer9/29/2016, 3:11:06 PM1 votes

Top/mid/jungle won't have diversity

Top will mostly be the the 4 champions being played across the regions Mid there are 4 champions consistently being played Jung will have 4picks as well, Elise, rek, Gragas, and nid

There will be off picks but not many

Miror B9/29/2016, 3:18:25 PM1 votes

I predict we'll see 45 different characters used. JG/ADC/Supp will be pretty non-varied, top we'll probably see a bit of mage-focus, and mid we'll see a lot of one-trick picks (especially if they don't completely ban out westdoor every game).

ZT Xperimentor9/29/2016, 3:24:09 PM1 votes

Diversity in esports? I doubt it; but if they actually play anything unusual, stop the presses!