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Champions that are played outside the original intent of the creators

MrNuclearPumpkin··4 votes·1,183 views

As champions are created and meta and items are constantly shifting, champions are more and more starting to change in their roles. Supports become strong solo laners, junglers are supports, top laners are becoming supports and some junglers, ADC's are going mid and top and sometimes junglers.

One champion that comes to my mind right now, Is Blitzcrank. Just look at his original spotlight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmMC23DdT0 This is NOT a spotlight for a support champion. Blitzcrank was clearly made to be a damage dealing, disrupting, bruiser fighter-type. And look at the suggested build. Sheen > Tri force > Banshee's Veil > Infinity Edge > Bloodthirster. And if you really look at Blitzcrank's kit.... it's a pretty lousy support kit compared to the other actual support champions.

I'm more-so doing this because I noticed that Riot has often made changes and decisions on certain champions based on their original intent, wanting them to be played in the roles they were supposed to be in. Like some supports that were strong solo lane, but were nerfed to be used more-so as supports. Or Junglers that were super strong in top lane, but were nerfed a bit so they could go back to the jungle. And I'm wondering of certain champions that they've excluded from this rule they've made.

Can you guys list a few champions that aren't being played in the roles they were intended for?

16 Comments

Sahn Uzal3 votes

Vi was designed to be a toplaner, and Yasuo was designed to be a melee botlaner, or so I am told. Hecarim Was designed as a jungler, but ended up working better toplane for a while. Idem for Nautilus who ended up being quite a strong support/toplaner rather than jungler. Gangplank is often played mid despite being a toplaner

Cubíx1 votes

I personally like to play adc yasuo, its pretty fun.

Slamurai Jack3 votes

Ekko Ekko Ekko Ekko Ekko

Highly mobile AP assassin/skirmisher with powerful but unreliable CC? Try highly mobile tanky bruiser that's impossible to ever kill, catch, or escape.

Zarvanis1 votes

Fizz I know, right?

sit kid3 votes

Vi was supposed to be a top laner

Riot keeps buffing support lulu, but she is still played mid (pro play)

Ralanr3 votes

Poppy was designed for top with some jungling in mind. She became incredibly popular as support, which led to a lot of nerfs that I really despise.

RIP: AA reset passive.

Bunb0t2 votes

Ezrea was originally a midlane mage. I love him there. Hes my go to safe midlaner. Morello decided back in like, season 2 that they were no long going to consoder his ap build as legit and hes been balanced for bot lane ever since.

TyroneWatermelon2 votes

Blitz is not a support,never been a support and can not be in any situation be a true support,he's only a grab and damage bot The only champions that deserve the attribute support are enchanters. Not even Zyra and Vel'koz should be considered as a support.

Partholonian2 votes

Assassin Diana is the big one that stands out for me. QRR has just taken over her kit to the point that she can't play around her passive or W or E anymore. They need to remove the reset enabling ridiculous burst damage and replace it with a buff on successful QR that requires you to live for several seconds to get the benefit (and/or helps you do so).

This topic shouldn't include intentional flex picks like Karma Lulu Lux Morgana, right?

MrNuclearPumpkin1 votes

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Assassin Diana is the big one that stands out for me. QRR has just taken over her kit to the point that she can't play around her passive or W or E anymore. They need to remove the reset enabling ridiculous burst damage and replace it with a buff on successful QR that requires you to live for several seconds to get the benefit (and/or helps you do so).

This topic shouldn't include intentional flex picks like Karma Lulu Lux Morgana, right?

Well after that nerf to glitterlance, I don't even know anymore. :(

Leeerzeichen1 votes

I think Diana's problem is more that she sucks as bruiser than that she is op as assassin. Her w scales only with ap, so she gets punished with less tankyness if she decides to build a defensive item over an offensive item. She has no hard cc, except for he short e interrupt. She has no stickiness, except for her high cd e or her easy to mess up q-r combo. She has not the base damage to be effective with only one offensive item. Jax or Irelia just completely outclass her as a bruiser.

Don't get me wrong I would really like to see her getting pushed a bit more in the brusier direction, but it's her bruiser style that needs to get viable and not her assassin style that needs to get unviable.

OverpoweredSoap1 votes

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Assassin Diana is the big one that stands out for me. QRR has just taken over her kit to the point that she can't play around her passive or W or E anymore. They need to remove the reset enabling ridiculous burst damage and replace it with a buff on successful QR that requires you to live for several seconds to get the benefit (and/or helps you do so).

This topic shouldn't include intentional flex picks like Karma Lulu Lux Morgana, right?

To be fair you see Karma getting picked in places other than mid and support, like top and jungle occasionally.

ZT Xperimentor2 votes

When he came out, he was meant for top lane, like malphite they shifted positions over the seasons due to also being effective elsewhere in the right hands.

As for your question at the end; pretty much any assassin/marksmen that builds tank and still kills people.

Though for other examples, again I'd say assassins but for the intent of jungling; back in the early seasons there wasn't as much sudden damage nor significant mobility, being caught out split-pushing was more problematic since it would be harder to escape however while having a chance to fight back. Junglers back then either farmed hard and split pushed later, or had better teamfighting potential and would repeatedly gank to turn the odds of a fight; assassins back then had either high damage or high mobility (such as yi & nocturne), which makes sense for their archtype to be the jungler. But instead for the last 2.5 years several assassins have been played middle lane, where mages used to be.

Meanwhile tanks who (have disruption & conditional damage) were played top lane, where they could farm until built up then help in teamfights; but now see the occasional marksmen (such as graves, vayne & quinn), and tanks have been inadvertently relegated to jungle here & there. Though it wasn't odd back then to see lane swaps or partial swaps to confuse or counter opponents; seeing teams of 3 assassins & marksmen is getting old these days. And bruisers have pretty much taken the place of true tanks across the board, due to not having the limitations on damage that tanks have.

Friendly Ram2 votes

Eve was supposed to be an assassin but is played more as a diving offtank then pure burst.

runedara1 votes

Zyra was originally a mid lane champ.

SwiftKitten881 votes

did ne1 but me notice there was no adc on either team..

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