Season 7 and the introduction of the brawler mage and the fall of the assassin

Yes the brawler mage, Mages like who pack at least some cc or modest dps//burst alongside some neat aoe/dots Some of the mages with hard cc grabbing https://lolstatic-a.akamaihd.net/frontpage/apps/prod/preseason-2017/en_US/e8b9fdc1b422a536983bfd583c13deb77ac2146f/assets/img/gameplay/masteries/courage-of-the-colossus.jpg To beef themselves up even more

Tanks, those with plenty sustain building https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShQJtsPL9Svsj1R4JvwPs_IPmd9ep46W_DUCbZQ6Kc5AoPp8E4

And using it on their mage alongside possibly bond of stone or courage of colossus

Tanks and juggernauts like who have good disruptive peeling capabilities with a lot of sustain through health regen

they beef up their mage with knightsvow & bond of stone

Needless to say we will see a similar support/ADC interaction

Expect builds like these beefing them up A might grab

getting beefy and relying on alternate scalings/basedamage item damage and mastery damage and using freed up space to get more beefy

i expect assassins to utterly fail agains't these strategies

A beefy sustain & peel focused tank beefing up mages, The tanks will probably end up building Knightsvow + additional regen items like or maybe even double visage A beefy tank support beefing up their carry who will probably end up buying shit like

All courtesy of the damage amp up from both current and next season. All and everything is going to be poured into heavy % damage reductions backed up by modest resistances not too much, just enough, and a lot of sustain and health Health sustain and damage reduction is where it's going to be at for beefing up shields will also be big since they are temporary health scaling by damage reduction as well

assassins are in for a hard time next season :P