They are safer. They have higher or the same damage. They have cheaper itemization. They have the same, sometimes even better than melee base stats. They have a lot of self peel meaning that they are even safer yet again.
The only other class that I see having an absurd winrate is cc bot champs that allow said ranged champions to function at peak performance.
Thoughts?
robotmaster1 votesStay out of top lane and get ready to hate Assassins. They WILL get to you and they WILL make you clench your butthole.
GigglesO2 votesLol, I was thinking I should take up vayne and teemo toplane as mains...
redniwediS1 votesWhat is this quitter talk? Let the fools start playing ranged champions, melee will have their revenge soon enough.
On a serious note there is a fighter patch coming up, and Riot is paying close attention here, so the large gap you're seeing between range and melee might not be so large by the start of the new season.
GigglesO1 votesYea, but that isn't all inclusive, because there are still champs like Morde, and AAtrox that will pretty much always be left out in the dust. They are designed to be long fight champions that get nuked in 2-3 seconds... Great another season of darius and rivens being ontop. What about skarner, volibear, olaf and crew?
redniwediS1 votesOlaf is honestly doing pretty well right now. Voli is probably just going to sit there until Riot gets around to giving him a new kit, with only a few minor changes here and there. Honestly Juggernauts as a whole just need some work, because the main idea they were based around sounded good, but was really based on older gameplay ideas. I'm kind of glad at least Darius sees some play, but since he is pretty much Garen 2.0 it does make me a little salty.
I primarily play Juggernauts (Garen and Nasus mainly) so I do know the pain they are going through with this high speed, high damage meta. Still, there's always room for hope.
GigglesO1 votesI just don't see them lowering the speed of damage or buffing defenses any time soon. They have only increased damage and the speed of damage for the last 3-4 seasons. So even if they do buff said champions I feel like its just going to make the game worse in terms of damage.
The whole thing that drew me to that class of champions in the first place is their durability that they had. Unless that is buffed I'm not even sure I would want to play them again. I may as well just hyper damage from 500 range rather than try and fight lane phase and then try and get to the enemy with either 0 tank or 0 real damage.