How to make fighters great again(from a sicko who happily abuses ranged toplaners and cancur tanks)
- nerf or remove mercs
- create new Tenacity item class-bound to fighters (as in: giving stats like lots of HP and a just bit of AD, or non-scaling melee range damage proc akin to DMP), granting more tenacity than mercs
- important note: making it melee only is not good enough. It needs to actually be bound to fighters.
Why?
- amount of tenacity mercs give is not enough for kiteable juggs, or semi-kiteable divers to function
- however, tenacity on mercs can't be buffed, as mercs are a common buy on most assassins/skirmishers ATM. Since chain cc is about as much counterplay as assassins get, any meaningful amount of tenacity quickly becomes abusive on them.
What this achieves:
- melee tops are still shat on in lane by rangeds. Sorry, that's unavoidable. Every class in the game has to deal with it's bullies.
- however, a fighter that is only somewhat behind should still be able to outperform a ranged toplaner in a teamfight, as they are much harder to deny, and can put their superior base stats in good use - case in point: Irelia.
It's book example of "one class can't get item they need because the other will abuse them" syndrome. Please also notice how it is similar to Doran's Shield case: every day we get "buff DS YDBs" topics. It won't get any meaningful buffs, however, because only class that deserves strong Doran's Shield are fighters, and in it's current shape, it is in no way class-bound to them, easily leading to abuse.
