What does it take to make juggernauts competitively viable while not being broken?

doodlebob666··1 votes·666 views

In this split of the LCS i have watched every single CLG game along with most TSM, C9, KT, and a spatering of over games mostly in korea. In that time I have seen 3 juggernauts in total Mundo, Trundle, and Olaf, with only Olaf ever being anything more than a cheese/pocket pick. Last season it was pretty much the same juggernauts that were played it was just that trundle was a bit more prominent, and mundo had an early stint as an op before quickly being nerfed. Udyr also showed up but at the time but he was also ridiculous at the time as well in solo que to a frankly ridiculous degree (I was bronze 5 at the time so I may be wrong on this).

Out of the three juggernauts that has seen play in both season 6 and 7 only olaf and trundle were good picks in both season 7 and 6 while also not being to overbearing in solo que at the time. This is a pretty short look at the competitive scene and its history with juggernauts but going to far back means your looking at a completely different game from what we have today.

Are these two juggernauts a good mold for other juggernauts to have traits built around? Or does the state of the game need to be changed fundamentally for more juggernauts to show up in LCS?

3 Comments

Big Lincoln2 votes

juggernauts compete with 2 roles simultaneously; they compete with tanks, and they compete with carries

so right now tanks are doing enough damage that the meta ones can kill squishies while being far more durable, and ADCs are a lot safer than juggernauts to make up for being easily killable

if tanks couldn't compete with them for damage there wouldn't be an issue, i think.

cfreetenor1 votes

They need to address, revamp, and expand the various mechanics that allow damage to be dependent on or modified by damage taken.

Smitemuffin1 votes

The only problem with balancing juggernauts is all the crying from ADC mains every time their champs aren't so broken they can play every single role and actually have to kite with champs that don't do it for you like Lucian Vayne and Kalista

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