Will Riot end up reworking champions that are powerful solely due to their weapon?

WoonStruck··1 votes·267 views

Riot has stated before that they wanted to make every character in league actual champions; not just some guy with a crazy weapon they got somewhere. They specificaly cited JarvanIV for this, and I believe that was in season 2 or 3.

Do you think Riot should rework Ezreal and JarvanIV due to them being essentially a weapon with no attachment with to the character?

The positives are that their lore would heavily tie in with their gameplay, and in Ezreal's case, he might actually have a dedicated purpose, rather than a kit with no cohesive theme. What about his kit says that he's an explorer, despite that being his 'identity?'

The negatives are losing part of the current champions/gameplay, and alienating the die-hard fans. However, this has been done before for the good of the game, even if the changes were considered negative at the time.

To keep this champion specific, Caitlyn Corki Darius Draven are the same as Fiora MissFortune Lucian Katarina. While they're focused around the weapon they use, its still their ability, not the weapon itself doing everything.

Ekko Graves Jayce Rumble Viktor Are all in the same boat as well, with them either being an inventor whose theme ties in with their weapon, or in Graves's case, whose theme heavily lends itself to its weapon.

This is mostly a talk aboutEzreal and JarvanIV, who are essentially their weapon gameplay-wise, while their character is completely unrelated.

2 Comments

XxxLumberJackxxX1 votes

THey cited J4 on that? Link??? They often cite jax/irelia on that since they need melee focused as/on hit items to be good in order to work (guinsoos asn triforce specifically, maybe bork too).

Or are you focused on lore? Jarvan's kit and lore are both good and make sense. Ezreal... if you took away 'explorer' and turned him into 'magic glove boy' his kit would make more sense with his theme.

Meep Man1 votes

I honestly doubt it.

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