Mobile champions have high base movement speed because...

Gasps! They are mobile!

Seriously, if anybody thinks that need to be impossible to escape they shouldn't even be posting in the gameplay boards. The primary and in some cases only counterplay for Juggernauts is to stay away from them. Do people really think when jump into a fight or trade they should have no way of escaping or out maneuvering beefier/more sustained champions?

On top of that, movement speed isn't some binary stat in relation to other mobility spells. It is tuned based on how champions interact in team fights, roaming, rotations, split pushing, itemization, kiting, sustained fighting and laning. has the same movement speed as and because she otherwise would lose every lane to them. According to League of Graphs(cited often by Riot games) Riven loses more often to Illoai by a couple % and barely wins vs Darius by a couple % making it mostly a skill matchup. Why would we change that? Her advantage is suppose to be out maneuvering them. As for it is because Morde in his current iteration destroys everyone once he gets within melee range and has an item or two with minimal counterplay. You HAVE to be able to outrun Mordekaiser. Same could be said for Garen the binary champion who's only counterplay 90% of the time is not getting near him.

Of fucking course has higher movement speed than Darius or Morde, he is suppose to be a mobile, roaming, dueling champion who plays around you. They aren't going to arbitrarily make him slow because for some reason Darius needs more roaming potential than Jax.

Some cases are also just bullshit claims "Why is Ekko faster than Juggernauts!?!". As said with Riven who has the same movement speed as and and LESS than so does not more, the saaame. And that is quite intentional. His mobility already has tradeoffs in tankiness, sustained fighting power and other strong assets such as penetration/shred that Juggernauts get. His movement speed isn't the tradeoff or he wouldn't even be a mobile champion, he would be just as immobile except reliant on cooldowns to match their mobility.

The ones with more are typically all in champions with less sustained damage and/or survivability than a Juggernaut have more than your average Juggernaut. That is because they are all in sustained fighters with less tankiness, sustain or CC. So they get to be a bit faster so they have a way out or a more solid way in. It is called a tradeoff.

And before anybody "Huff durr the exception so it must be the rule!" No, Lee is an exception. He had too much movement speed for what he did, or what he did was too strong for his movement speed. But that is getting nerfed next patch so he will have the same movement speed as Shyvana, also a CD nerf when long CDs are rare on fighters in addition to the ult damage nerf a few months ago. I am not going to say he is or isn't balanced after these changes but it is already being addressed and we all know it was a problem.

Melees are already faster than ranged champions barring a few exceptions on either side, which are setup that way for a reason. And immobile melees either have the same speed or less than mobile squishies in most cases(see Nasus) because the tradeoff for mobility should not be mobility, that is ass backwards and will not balance champions. It will just either make it so they have to tune up their sustained fighting power and tankiness or make them worthless as they will be unable to outrun champions they just barely outrun as it is, who also usually out fight them in sustained melee range.

You also don't set down hard rules like that. Every champion is unique and needs tuning based on their individual kit, power budget, interactions, laning, mid game and late game. Their own counterplay, they own number tuning and their matchups. Not arbitrary rules that blanket over entire classes, if anything that has been one of the biggest problems with class updates. They bunch a bunch of unique champions together and give them all the same rules even though they are all extremely different.

I hope my passive aggressive tone didn't soil the tone of this post. But I am really tired of seeing posts trying to set down random gameplay philosophies that make no sense because of a generally shallow understanding of champion and game design.