All fighters are being reworked into tanks/juggernauts

ChasmOfTrossm··2 votes·558 views

Foreword: I love playing fighters, they used to be one of the most diverse classes in the game in terms of how you can build them, but now you are forced to get one dmg item instead of the traditional two: e.g the old tri-force + botrk combo on attack speed based bruisers (tri-force to get the ball rolling, botrk as supplementary damage to use against tanks and other beefier enemies in the late game), or in the case of caster bruisers Black Cleaver + Ravenous Hydra for damage amplification and sustain.

Happened to Galio, it happened to Warwick, Udyr's W was modified to encourage more hp-building, Darius went from gaining ms per stack on his old passive to relying on Black Cleaver + Deadman's, Galio received the premier dmg reduction that scales against a specific damage-type as opposed to being rewarded with offense for building defense which was the point of old Galio's passive (though I can see why some hated it, hell I abused the shit out of it and for good reason, as it supremely buffed his W). Mordekaiser's shield scales with his maximum hp, taking away his fighter/bruiser mage identity and placing massive emphasis on said passive.

I don't quite fully understand how this came to be the standard for fighters. I suppose it has a lot to do with damage creep.

The last thing I want to see is my monkey man go from this: https://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/MonkeyKing_0.jpg

To this:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/nintendo/images/7/72/Chunky_Kong_%28Donkey_Kong_64%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20120814171725&path-prefix=en

God forbid the abominable passive they give him.

3 Comments

Ralanr1 votes

Galio was a Mage, not a fighter. Warwick is still a diver.

Honestly I think it might be that fighter’s in general have not aged well into the game. Wu is supposed to be a fighter but feels more like an assassin as he builds straight lethality and bursts from stealth.

Radiant Wukong1 votes

I think Wukong, Vi, Jarvan, Lee Sin, Renny, Olaf and other divers are safe.

La Bello1 votes

now call me crazy but I think the most recent Aatrox change is actually a oversight.

his kit resembles that of a Slayer rather than a Juggernaut BUT and heres the big but. I think because Riot was simultaneously working on Juggernaut/BC melee items at the time they mistakenly balanced Aatrox around building Juggernaut numberwise when his kit and numbers shouldve been more geared towards slaying/diving.

I Feel like Irelia is the same way. Riot needs to understand that DIVERS and SLAYERS should not be building item 3748 item 3053 because thats supposed to be for JUGGERNAUTS. I feel like when you make a character do obscene damage BUT ALSO tanky as fuck fighting against those champs becomes frustrating as hell.

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