What do Yi, Yasuo, Tryn and Riven all have in common?
They are really fun to play. They are really unfun to play against - or to have on your own team. They have high DPS and somewhat high burst, they're squishy, they build a lot of damage items and they all have very similar core problems attached to their kits.
And most importantly, they all are skirmishers. Here's an excerpt from the dev blog that describes classes and subclasses that explains what skirmishers are:
Unlike Assassins, Skirmishers aim to shred through any nearby enemy that approaches. Because Skirmishers lack high-end burst damage or reliable ways of closing in on high-priority targets, they are instead armed with situationally powerful defensive tools to survive in the fray, along with extreme sustained damage to cut down even the most durable targets.
Considering all this, I think there is an opportunity to fix all these champions at the same time - with a skirmisher class update. Since there are 4 major reworks in every class update and there are 4 skirmishers in desperate need of a fix, the champions I put in the title, I think that this would be the best way to deal with their inherent problems.
The current incarnation of
is the champion they all should be designed with in mind because I think that she is the perfect example of a healthy and balanced skirmisher - fun to play, not frustrating to play against, builds damage items and not a lot of tank items, has high DPS but not too much burst and she's constantly hovering around a perfect 49-50% win rate for several patches now.
Imagine, every single one of the champions listed in the title could be like her with one single patch if they made a skirmisher class update. As a
main, the thought of this is basically a wet dream for me.
Let me know what you think about this.