I don't think riot seriously wants to actually support off roles of champs

Shadow Hazard··3 votes·652 views

When it was first brought up people were excited about the champs that had their off role gutted would be able to play that off role again. Instead we got morg and zyra jungle....

As someone who had favored playing jungle champs I look at ekko who is still in a state of needing attention, I look at fizz who also had his jungle ability gutted in the cross fire of nerfing his tank build in the past. And even when riot wants to defend themselves saying that was in the past when the mindset was different within the team I look at the very recent attention that was put towards Irelia for actively gutting her ability to jungle when it looked like a viable choice.

But if they take champs that historically didn't function in a position, then try and fail at forcing them into another for an off role it gives the illusion of trying. It's like they are just turning a door handle aren't actually trying to open it then declaring it's locked.

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k wìx2 votes

Most of the immediate changes they are making head in the opposite direction of 'all champions in all roles'

-> Nerfing mage items (This directly works against having any AP style champion stand up to AD champions - Look at Seraphs) -> Mana issues in general ( Huge discrepancy between mana usage between champions, nerfing of mana runes) -> **Lack of Vision control (Taking away supports ability to buy more wards, hard warding caps - early game vision lock - these all work to stop champion diversity in lanes.) -> 'Protect the ADC' meta enforced (Look at shield stacking, multiple support itemization changes geared specifically at keeping your damage cannon safe.) -> Items for only 1 role (Most itemization changes make the items work better on FEWER champions - look at item 3026. It's only for AD champions now.) -> Lack of early items to stop counterpicks (There are fewer options than ever when going into a poor or bad matchup. Runes Reforged did a lot of damage here, though this is slowly getting fixed.) -> ** Scaling Power Curves (Continues to be a huge issue. AD Champions scale very hard, AP Champions struggle to scale well - especially when it comes to Tanks.)

Draehl2 votes

They don't even support alternate item builds for existing roles. What a stretch it would be to support alternate roles.

*weeps into his coffee bemoaning the loss of offtank Bard *

AlienPrimate1 votes

I seem to be doing fine.

https://i.imgur.com/AiuVSr2.png

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