What champions were meant to be in different roles at release?

Swifteyy·May 19, 2018·1 votes·788 views

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Dead flag bluesMay 19, 20182 votes

Zyra mid, ended up being a support Blitzcrank toplaner / jungler (I believe ?), ended up as a support Nautilus jungler, but has been played everywhere Nidalee midlaner, ended up in the jungle Zilean support, is more efficient midlane Karma mid / top, ended up support

I Love ThreshMay 19, 20182 votes

iirc additionally, was meant to be a top lanner?

PhearBunnyMay 19, 20182 votes

Mundo does what he pleases.

Around999PeopleMay 19, 20181 votes

Kayle was supp, Morgana was mid. Brand was mid. Lux was mid. Zyra was mid. Corki was adc. Graves was adc.

TormentulaMay 19, 20181 votes

Graves ADC, reworked into jungle Khazix I want to say a mid laner but idk if that was intentional or not, he was mid on release Urgot ADC, then found a home top and got reworked for top specifically. Fiddlesticks jungler that pretty much is more viable every where else but jungle atm. Quinn ADC?

HP CrookshanksMay 19, 20181 votes

Morgana and Velkoz are mostly played as supports despite being mid laner mages.

OurLestradeMay 19, 20181 votes

Lulu

MordepoolMay 19, 20181 votes

Yasou

SalamencęMay 19, 20181 votes

Yeah Vi was meant to be top

MorganFreemanBotMay 19, 20182 votes

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Yeah Vi was meant to be top

was not meant to be a top exclusively.

Vi came from the same line of thinking which brought us Elise LeeSin Rengar Khazix ; attempts at making champions who were equally strong as top laners or junglers (Kha'zix was supposed to be a mid laner / jungler).

Unfortunately, this sort of design carried.. problems. Given the vastly different tools needed to lane, vs what was needed to jungle, most of said champions ended up useless in one role (KZ was an AWFUL jungler for quite some time), or disgustingly strong in another (Elise single-handedly pushed all non-renekton melee tops into the dumpster.. for an entire season).

To be more specific, Vi was designed to be a good top laner and a good jungler. She never managed to be a good top, but she became one of the trend setters during the jungle invade meta of later s3 and all of s4; when the requirement for jungle viability was being able to survive - and fight off - Elise, Lee, or Vi invading you at your second buff camp.