Champion Style Change Idea...
I was on the boards earlier today and i saw a post about some guy deleting his old mordekaiser mastery page since it was for the old morde. The guy made a long ramble about how he missed old morde and wanted a way to bring it back and mentioned an idea for changing champions style. I think this is actually a really interesting idea that with a bit of fine tuning and some balancing, it could be something incredible. A lot of champions have different weaknesses that may not have been present before a rework or a balance change but at the same time didn't have abusive strengths they may have now in certain aspects of the game. I think if riot made a switch play style option to make a champion stronger in certain match-ups or better suited to his teams play style, it could really add a whole new level of competitive play. For example, you pick maokai and you want to be more offensive and have an assassin play style, waiting in the enemy jungle and have saplings setup to ambush them at their camps instead of farming under turret top lane to scale into a tanky peeler for your team late game. You could have an option 1 in champ select which is like standard maokai or Option 2 (there would obviously be more) that would lower maokai's defenses and scaling but lower his cd's on his saplings and increase their damage dramatically. Obviously this is a very specific and situational example but it's just to give an idea of what it's like. I think this could make the game less of "top tier champs this patch that should be auto banned or auto picked are (champion), (champion), and (champion), and more on the lines of a very diverse pool where every champion is considered and their play styles. Note that this switch champion play style idea is a very rough idea that could clearly be revised but nonetheless i think its still something riot could consider for some fresh game play. Also know that this option would alter the champions' stats, scalings, and abilites but still maintain the identity of each ability with just different effects and numbers.
Just a thought and if anyone would care to add on or share their thoughts on this it would be appreciated greatly.
P.S: This is my first post... :)