Which champions should be considered for the upcoming Roster updates?

Malicious Metal·Dec 1, 2016·6 votes·1,207 views

With the Assassin update already having been unleashed upon the live servers people already started discussing the potential of either a Diver or Vanguard update. Both classes have too many similar champions while lacking a concrete Vision of them as a class. Now, this thread isn't to discuss which class should be the next update but rather which CHAMPIONS.

Divers Divers are a subclass of fighters, diving into the fray to cause mayhem and head straight for the high priority targets. Unlike Assassins they lack the tools to exit the fight once they started it but rather embody the "balls to the walls" play style of flinging themselves into battle and either emerging victorious or just succumbing to overwhelming odds. Their forte is strong dueling with decent survivability, having the tools to engage the fight for themselves and just head straight for their prize.

Potential candidates: He suffers from simply having a bland diver kit with nothing that delivers on his theme. He's a stat stick that really needs to embrace his thematic and become what he's supposed to be; A Demon of War who dictates the flow of the battle and swing the tides of war in his favor. His problem is one of thematic cohesion, satisfaction and simply being too bland of a character design.

He's outdated and just like Aatrox a stat stick. Either he dives in and nobody can stop him or he...doesn't. His kit is heavily snowball reliant and very binary, not having much in terms of outplay potential

Relies too heavily on ONE long CD ability while having a rather boring kit that doesn't deliver fully on his character's potential

Pantheon has always either been utterly oppressive or useless, relying on his very telegraphed abilities to just destroy his opponents and snowball from there. He lacks counterplay and ways to do his job without simply feeling too oppressive. All his abilities are low satisfaction, low counterplay abilities that could be replaced with cooler, more unique ones.

Honorable mention: The unholy spawn of Divers and Vanguards. Hecarim is a Hybrid between the two classes that usually feels very oppressive to play against when ahead but struggles when behind. He could use some touch ups but I just wanted to mention him here.

Vanguards Vanguards are those beefy tanks who ENGAGE the fight. Their AoE team initiation coupled with extreme durability is what defines them as their team's primary means of engage, starting the fight and overwhelming the enemy with their AoE CC, relying on their team to follow up rather than Wardens who protect their team. They're the offensive tanks and thus rely on tools to pave the way to victory for their team.

They all share the same problem of not having a real strategic niche, usually only being picked whenever they're strong. Most of them rely on their ultimates to engage and the rest of their kits are rather bland, boring and not really satisfying to use.

Potential candidates: He could really benefit from getting a more versatile kit that delivers on his identity as the Amorphous Combatant, shaping to fit the battle through his flexibility and really delivering on his rather cool character of the unlikely superhero.

Similar to Zac Sejuani just lacks a proper identity and doesn't really deliver on her tough Warrior Queen theme

Same as Sejuani. Malphite doesn't feel like the mountain he's supposed to be and it just a walking R bot, an over glorified Cannon ball that hurls himself at the enemy and expects them to die. His base kit is a bit bland and could be cooler but his E in particular is a very strong tool and really fits him as a Vanguard Tank