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My predictions for League post-Juggernaut.

AtheosisX·8/5/2015, 9:37:34 PM·8 votes·689 views

  1. AD assassins will return to mid in force. Zed in particular. Yay...

  2. Tank junglers will go extinct. The best we will see is Cinderhulk junglers mixing tank and damage items.

  3. Tanks and bruisers will dominate top almost completely, mostly due to the two new items for tanky bruisers, but also because most team comps will still want at least one tank and that tank won't be going to the jungle.

  4. Darius will become incredibly toxic, with the lane 99% decided in champion select. He won't necessarily be overpowered, just unfun and toxic. Even moreso than before.

  5. Garen will be nearly unplayable, and will pretty much disappear from the game. That self-slow is going to destroy him completely in terms of viability.

  6. Mordekaiser will be a novelty in bot lane for a week or so but will quickly reach a Zilean-level pick rate as people realize it just doesn't work.

  7. Skarner will continue to be a jungler people want to like but simply can't. Much like Mordekaiser, once the novelty wears off people will simply stop playing him as they realize he's too freaking slow to gank worth a damn.

5 Comments

Xonra8/5/2015, 9:39:42 PM3 votes

I disagree with none of this.

NemeBro8/5/2015, 9:40:16 PM2 votes

{quoted}

  1. AD assassins will return to mid in force. Zed in particular. Yay...

  2. Tank junglers will go extinct. The best we will see is Cinderhulk junglers mixing tank and damage items.

  3. Tanks and bruisers will dominate top almost completely, mostly due to the two new items for tanky bruisers, but also because most team comps will still want at least one tank and that tank won't be going to the jungle.

  4. Darius will become incredibly toxic, with the lane 99% decided in champion select. He won't necessarily be overpowered, just unfun and toxic. Even moreso than before.

  5. Garen will be nearly unplayable, and will pretty much disappear from the game. That self-slow is going to destroy him completely in terms of viability.

  6. Mordekaiser will be a novelty in bot lane for a week or so but will quickly reach a Zilean-level pick rate as people realize it just doesn't work.

  7. Skarner will continue to be a jungler people want to like but simply can't. Much like Mordekaiser, once the novelty wears off people will simply stop playing him as they realize he's too freaking slow to gank worth a damn.

The lane will indeed be decided in champion select with Darius, because now he counters no one in lane due to his embarrassing early game damage and durability, and his counters will only counter him harder.

Voidgolem8/5/2015, 9:41:37 PM2 votes

ezreal begins buying titanic hydra and rage gage despite one of them being melee-only.

because Qs.

Vistha Kai8/5/2015, 9:47:10 PM1 votes

Darius will get Yasuo'd/Kassadin'd with those changes.

Completely unfit for laning (i.e. gets shit on by everybody), maaaaaybe doing something later once he gets some items.

Completely agree with every other point, though.

The Y2J Problem8/6/2015, 3:45:58 AM1 votes

{quoted} 6. Mordekaiser will be a novelty in bot lane for a week or so but will quickly reach a Zilean-level pick rate as people realize it just doesn't work.

On the nose. Like Nostradomus.

Ha! I made a funny!