What class do you think will be updated next?

IxtaliKing·6/16/2017, 11:46:31 PM·2 votes·674 views

I'm guessing Skirmishers will be next for 3 reasons:

  1. Diana was meant to be main candidate in a Diver update, but now there's talk of her getting a Rek'Sai scale update at some point in the future. Seems a bit like Divers could be getting passed on...

  2. Support items have been updated and reworked to have quests, so Enchanters are probably even less of a priority now.

  3. Can't think of another class that needs updating :)

Any guesses before we find out next week?

47 Comments

KoKoboto6/17/2017, 12:14:37 AM3 votes

Divers. However I think RIto has learned from previous class updates that they updates just don't work out fully. Having resources spread out that much means some champions are left with the short end of the stick. They know that by focusing on specific champions they can get better results for the most part.

Check Shyvana (I think, lemme know you Shyvana mains), Amumu, Shenm Sion, Galio, Yorick, Aatrox, Leona, Heimerdinger, Warwick. Solo updates have been more successful than class updates.

Muzét6/17/2017, 12:59:02 AM3 votes

What's make me laugh and cry at the same is this.

Support items have been updated and reworked to have quests, so Enchanters are probably even less of a priority now.

Rather than doing one focus update on supports Riot is updating a few items, buffing here and there some supports, nerfing others. Just to avoid a support update. One that could attract more players to play support or at least they won't be as negative as now when being autofilled.

Radiant Wukong6/16/2017, 11:50:37 PM3 votes

Divers without a doubt. Wu and J4 need buffs.

Rengooo6/17/2017, 12:14:29 AM2 votes

Reav3 said he was working on a post about it, "Soon" tm

nachocheeseeeee6/17/2017, 2:46:39 AM2 votes

The diver subclass does need an update as they are one of they belong to the most abundant class, the fighters, who pretty much have very simple kits that ultimately do the same thing. However, I do think the supports, whether it is the enchanters or catchers, will be the next class reworked since I see a pattern that at least one subclass from a class has to be reworked. My guess is that Nami, Lulu, and Karma will be reworked as they are very much generalist supports maybe the possibility of Sona.

Scary Door6/17/2017, 7:10:24 PM2 votes

I think after about 5 swings-and-misses on Class updates, Riot is pretty much done with that. They'll focus more on small-scale updates to champs that require it with the occasional larger update here or there. But I think we have seen the last of the major class updates, thank God.


Mage Update: Basically a Failure.

Malzahar's kit was changed so that it was impossible to balance properly. At first it was horrendously strong, then was nerfed to the point where he was a barely viable support. Now he's been slightly buffed and is in the top 10 winrates again. Vel was perfectly balanced, then they screwed with him, then mostly reverted it later. Brand turned out okay, Vlad was gutted, then buffed recently and is now viable in a niche scenario.

Ryze. Need I say more? Multiple attempts to get this champion right and they have all fallen flat. Just revert Ryze to his original state and move on. He's currently sitting at the lowest win rate among ALL champions at 37%. At what point will Riot address this?


Juggernaut Update: Failure.

Skarner was actually good for a weak, then he was returned to the scrap heap. Darius is still ridiculous against many melee champs, but utter garbage in some matchups. Morde was destroyed and Garen is still just Garen; kinda viable in lower Elos, Not-at-all viable in higher Elo.


Marksman Update: Failure.

Anytime you have to completely revert one of the champions you updated, you have to call it a complete crash-and-burn. Cait is far too safe, MF is basically an ult-bot who could, at one point, chunk almost half your health with a single Q, Corki is terrible---one of hte lowest winrate among all adcs virtually since the update, Kalista (who wasn't really touched duruing the update but has received numerous nerfs) is useless, Lucian is the Zed of bot lane and can essentially burst you with one or two items easily.


Assassin Update: Failure.

Making assassins have "delayed burst" was probably the worst idea that the development/balance team has ever instituted. In a game where practically all damage is too high across the board, why would you nerf or shift the ability to do damage from the one class that's supposed to do it the best? The biggest complaint people have about assassins is that they are too feast or famine, but they are, above all others, supposed to be that way.

Akali still does Akali things, I didn't understand her update though. It seemed like her update was almost unnecessary. If you wanted to tune down her damage, you really didn't. Giving her a sustain gimmick in lane was not really needed----she is supposed to have a subpar laning phase (or at least until level 6). The mini-teleport on her and removing the targeted nature of it was silly as well.

Fizz is legitimately broken, he has far too many things going for him. High damage which is easy to apply, burst, mobility and a mitigation tool that is on a 5.5 second cooldown at maximum CDR. If the assassin update was designed to give "delayed burst" it is clear that Fizz didn't receive that memo. I'm actually okay with Fizz being as he is provided that you remove his incredibly short cooldown on his E. Once Fizz commits to a fight he needs to see it through, period. As it is right now he doesn't have to and even if you outplay him or dodge his ult (which is nearly impossible to do because he practically can't miss it) then he can just escape with his troll-poll.

Katarina has the 16th lowest win rate now at 46% and is objectively terrible. As someone that loved to play Kat and even dedicated many hours to learning the new Kat, I feel that it's just a poor immitation of the old champion. Her damage is just too delayed and, again, if other classes did appropriate amounts of damage then maybe Kat would have a chance, but since everyone hits like a truck in League these days it is almost impossible for Kat to outtrade people. An assassin should be able to kill an adc or squishy melee, Kat can only do this if she's far ahead and that shouldn't have to be the case.

LeBlanc is just a sad shadow of her former glory. Delayed burst that isn't even that bursty anymore. I get that old LeBlanc wasn't the healthiest, but her winrate was always in the mid 40% range, so I didn't ever think that she was terribly overpowered. She was always a win-lane, lose game type of champ.

Talon is just a plate of hot garbage these days. In the right matchup he can still be viable, but giving him a gimmicky wall-jump wasn't exactly what he needed. He just doesn't do enough damage in a short period of time. He's like a weak fighter at this point.


Tank Update: Biggest Failure of them all.

With all of the balance issues this game has, why waste time on champions that didn't need an update?

Irelia Bot6/17/2017, 3:00:42 AM2 votes

They barely picked tanks over Divers because they concluded tanks needed item changes more than divers needed kit updates.

I would be highly surprised if they did any class besides divers next.

Radiant Wukong6/17/2017, 2:11:33 AM2 votes
Quepha6/17/2017, 6:31:51 PM1 votes

There will be no more big class updates, just individual reworks of the scope that you would find in the class updates.

Sun Wu Ryuumoku6/17/2017, 2:18:24 AM1 votes

Hope it will be Divers.

MonkeyKingAatrox Diana need a real kit.

I can't wait for this class update. Most of time, they're successful globaly. U can argue about it but Talon Zac Maokai seems great. To me u don't take current balancing thing account to know if its a good or not rework.

btw they can addressRengar at this time... so crybaby rengar mains be happy again

Dreadlocks6/16/2017, 11:51:52 PM1 votes

I hope they don't do another class update tbh.. They tend to cause more problems than fix.. They should just focus on doing more full VGU instead. Those dont typically turn out as bad.

Sir Fuzzi6/17/2017, 1:09:45 AM1 votes

Gonna say divers so that we can move on to balancing around them, and the ubiquitous turret complaints. Or mebbe not.

Rand0mH3r0X6/16/2017, 11:47:48 PM1 votes

Minions. Quest: Say hello to your 35th cousin. Then kill him.

DeathBurst6/17/2017, 3:04:29 AM1 votes

In fact, I wonder if there will be a Roster update at all. Given that next pre-season is also when they plan to release Runes Reforged / Perks, maybe we will have only that, and not also a lot of champions reworks on top of it.

VoraciousX6/17/2017, 3:37:30 AM1 votes

Probably still Divers. I don't remember anyone mentioning Diana being a main candidate of the class rework but even if she isn't, they could work on other Divers. Either way we all know which classes are gonna benefit the most from it.

AmazoX6/17/2017, 3:35:20 PM1 votes

I think its going to be the Divers Update or no class update for next year since skirmishers have been getting a lot of work, Fiora was reworked, Ekko was a balance nightmare and now his finally at his fairly balanced point after the Assassin Update, Yasuo is high on their champion update, I don't see why skirmishers are going to be updated next, When they all were worked on individually a lot of the times.

chipndip16/17/2017, 5:26:50 PM1 votes

Riot said that they aren't fond of doing class reworks anymore, so I vote "none".