It's time to review and change how champions are officially classified (Assassin, Mage, etc).

FistOfSharkiesha··1 votes·384 views

Xerath being classified as an assassin, I assume simply because his ultimate can snipe people is just absurd. He is one of the mageiest mages in the game. By that I mean he's meant to do huge AoE damage at long range. He doesn't jump in and burst single target damage or anything like that.

Ahri is more of a slippery mage than an assassin. Her kit isn't instant or all that bursty and she relies on her utility and mobility more than damage.

Jax is just a massive, massive failure when built like an assassin. He's THE biggest hybrid of LoL, scaling almost equally well with AD, AP, MR, and AR. He has awful AD ratios so it's not like you can just jump on someone and explode them like you would assume an assassin can. Jax should be either fighter/tank due to his AA based nature and his defensive ultimate, or just Fighter. Assassin should not appear anywhere in his classification.

There are quite a few weird errors that should be addressed. It might even help players get a better sense of how to play certain champions, or find champions more like their playstyle. I remember seeing far too many Jax's that built Hydra, Ghostblade, Black Cleaver, probably because they just assumed Jax was the same as Zed or Riven. Adding a specialist class also wouldn't hurt. I think it would be a better way to describe the harder to classify champions such as Galio, Ahri, Heimerdinger, etc.

10 Comments

Ralanr1 votes

Don't take the secondary role seriously. The primary role is the better classification. Secondary role means they have elements of that class, but not enough or they are too close to their primary to be considered their secondary.

OperationDEEZ11 votes

Some are pretty accurate, like Ezreal being secondary mage, because he can build AP quite effectively.

Ralanr1 votes

Remember that Mordekaiser is being given the marksman title.

Point being, it's best not to take it all too seriously. I've always seen Ezreal as Mage first tbh.

RottenRoot1 votes

Morgana is primary role is mage and her recommended items are for supp tho.

Ralanr1 votes

Because she is played as a support a lot.

Hell Blitzcrank isn't even a support. He's a fighter/tank.

Stellafreyja1 votes

The fact that Syndra is classified as Mage/Support is still amusing.

Vesarixx1 votes

Yeah that tag doesn't really make sense either.

Swerzz1 votes

As a Xerath main, i learnt something new today. Thank you.

Vesarixx1 votes

Ahri being classed as an assassin makes sense, she has the mobility to get in and out quickly, xerath makes a lot less sense as an assassin. Jax makes some sense having the assassin tag, AP Jax has decent burst and he's pretty mobile.

Aeolian Melodies1 votes

All non-tank supports are labelled as mages as their 2nd role tag yet building them as mages is very inefficient for the most part.

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