Wait, aren't skirmishers and divers basically just the same thing?

Even just looking at riot's own descriptions (check below) of these sub-classes, it just sounds like one is saying "fighter/assassins" and the other is saying "assassin/fighters".

Then when you combine the two specified designs of the of fighers and slayers, you get **Fighters **:- durable, damage focused, look to be in the thick of combat **Slayers **:- _fragile, agile, 'bursty' _

At which point it's got me scratching my head, because wouldn't combining durability, sustained damage, burst damage, and agile movements, basically just include the counters to every other class in the game?

Mages : countered by agile movements Tanks : countered by sustained damage Marksmen : countered by burst damage Controllers : countered by durable enemies

Well that is, excluding themselves, which might have a different distribution of these same traits which gives them an advantage over other divers & skirmishers.

Obviously you have a lot more factors which play into a champion being "broken", but don't some of these faces look oddly... familiar?

• "Divers"
• "Skirmishers"

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Divers Divers are the more mobile portion of the Fighter class. Divers excel at singling out high-priority targets to blitz toward, immediately forcing those targets (and their teammates) to deal with the diver’s presence. Divers are not as durable as the tanks or juggernauts of the world, but Divers can take their fair share of punishment while bringing enough damage to be a real kill threat if left unchecked.

Skirmishers Unlike Assassins, Skirmishers aim to shred through any nearby enemy that approaches. Because Skirmishers lack high-end burst damage or reliable ways of closing in on high-priority targets, they are instead armed with situationally powerful defensive tools to survive in the fray, along with extreme sustained damage to cut down even the most durable targets.