a dying breed of champions

Dr Dog··3 votes·2,315 views

champions with very flexable builds, as classes and roles are being more forced on champions now and classes usually having a set itemization you have to follow a lot of champions with open builds are dying out. im not talking about someone like like kaisa who can throw some weird items in because of her ap dmg im talking about champions nocturne, nocturne as he is can go bruiser, on hit, assassin or any combination of those if he feels which is something really cool imo and helps him fit into most team comps, but like him champions like that are usually outdated and most have been reworked like evelynn

i wish they would put the breaks on all these flashy champions for a little and put out some more easy to pick up and flexable champions hell give them an interesting mechanic and keep them modern but the direction champion design is going is a bit worrying especially with so many recent releases being so frustrating to fight and hard to balance if it keeps going as it is with new champions having so much stuffed into their kits older champions with perfectly fine kits might have to get reworked to be overtuned or overloaded to have a chance against newer champs with so many options, just bring back some more simple kits and mechanics like the new champions passive and q, they're great but then they had to go and overload his e and give him a ult we already know is gonna be a balance nightmare

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Alzon1 votes

Champions with multiple viable build paths/playstyles: Blitzcrank Chogath Gragas JarvanIV Kayn Kennen Malphite Nocturne Nunu Rengar Shaco Shyvana Sion Teemo Tryndamere Udyr

Just over 10% of League’s total roster. I’d say that’s a respectable amount.

Dr Dog2 votes

im talking about equally viable ones, udyrs build depending on comp is just either more tank or more bruiser

blitz is only a tanky support

trynda is a glass cannon and building him even one tank item is pretty detrimental, i would count ap trynda but it got guttered

gragas got his tank build gutted when he was a meta jger so now hes only really viable as an ap jg

j4 got turned from a tank into an assassin pretty much building him bruiser is alright tho so ill give ya that

shaco can go ap in a lane kinda, but thats not typically viable as opposed to an assassin jg

nunu is a good one imo, ap and tank are equally viable so ill give ya that

rengo top with grasp is a thing but not near as viable as he is as an assassin jg

teemo is pretty meta as a split pusher with frozen mallet and as ap so ill give that one up

sions only difference is titanic sometimes and sometimes not

kayn has two forms i wouldnt count it much unless each form had multiple builds

kennen is the king of weird viable builds, but he only has one at a time he cant really do anything outside of ap top now

shyvanna is only viable as, well she isnt viable really but tanky on-hit is her only really decent build rn

malphite can go ap or tank so ill give him that

udyr is pretty much only a bruiser, only difference is how tanky he builds

most of the older champs are the ones you've listed 3 of which are gonna end up reworked soon most likely

Bârd1 votes

Lethality Sion is pretty sweet.

Dr Dog1 votes

true but its not really that viable is what im getting at

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