Should Tanks, Diving Fighters or Assassins get the last class update of the year?
So a while ago, a Rioter (Pretty sure it was Meddler) confirmed there will be another Class update this year, after the mid year mage update. It was also mentioned that this class will most likely be Tanks, Diving fighters or Assassins.
I wanted to have a discussion about this. In this thread, I'll compare the champions in these classes with each other.
First off, let's see if these champions have something that makes them unique to the other champions in their class.
I'll try not to be biased, and if you disagree with me on anything, please, tell me C;
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Tanks.
Sion
Sion is a hyper tank with a strong laningphase, he's pretty good at all points of the game for different reasons. Sions numbers are propably really high compared to other champions, but his damage and crowd control is REALLY unreliable. His engage is strong IF he lands it, unstoppable onslaught sets up a nice CC chain IF he travelled long enough. He's also a decent peeler and can take some hits. He does everything ''ok'' but it's nothing in Sions kit is very reliable. But if he does land them every spell is really valuable, even Roar of the slayer. (Will explain if someone asks for it c:)
Nautilus
: THE champion with the most Crowd Controll spells in the game. He has decent engage with Depth Charge (R) While having ''ok'' dueling power as long as his Titans Wrath (W) is up. He also has great peel, his Crowd controll is pretty reliable, His Q has a pretty big hitbox, his ultimate is point and klick while not easy to counter but his Passive is melee ranged. His E is a pretty slow moving slow compared to lets say a Volibears E.
Malphite
Malphites engage is godlike. He's also known for being really effective against full AD teams. In terms of crowd control, he has an AoE knockup which is really strong, but other than that he has a slow and an Attackspeed slow. His E has a lot of value in the right situations. To make up for the fact that he only has one Hard CC spell, he can slap clap people for some damage.
Maokai
IMO Maokai is the best peeling tank that is not meant as a support. His W is a point and klick snare that can really ruin the day of anyone trying to dive your backline, his Q is almost guarenteed to knock someone up after using his W, his E has a slow... cool. But also provides some free map Vision. And his Ultimate is REALLY strong allthough it drains more mana than this game sucks money out of my wallet.
His passive allows him to stay alive for ages unless he gets bursted while his W also allows some sweet playmaking.
Zac
Zac has a lot of sustain with his blobs, but other than that he is ''ok'' at everything. He can engage a teamfight but why pick Zac for engaging if you can pick Malphite? He can peel for carries, but why pick Zac for peeling when you can pick Maokai or Nautilus? His E is also a pretty unreliable tool, allthough the range on it is really strong.
Zac has some things going for him, but he'd really like a class update :P
Sejuani
Does practically what Malphite does. She uses her ultimate as an initiation tool (or prefers to atleast), has some OK damage, and some slows. She has more hard CC than malphite, but is not as reliable. How many times have you seen a Sejuani whiff her ultimate? How many times have you seen a Malphite mis his ultimate? Yeah.... There is no real reason to pick her over Malphite other than when Sejuani is just flat out stronger at that moment.
Cho'Gath
Cho'Gath is outdated (and abnoxious IMO). His rupture is strong but unreliable, his W is reliable for bullshit reasons, his e... Who even cares about his E post laningphase? Honestly, he'll either get kited or he'll kill you in one rotation.
And then there is his ultimate. This thing deals a ton of damage and gives him a ton of free stats.
I believe Cho'Gath is a really strong champion, but just struggles with his outdatedness. He also doesn't really feel like he nails his thematic the way something like Zac or Sion does. Cho'Gath wants to be this whole huge ass kaiju like monstrosity who swings his giant limbs at you, dealing either a ton of damage or misses and does very little. Meanwhile, Vorpal Spike Slapping intensifies Feral scream kinda feels like but rupture feels out of place, But that is just my opinion (Just wanted to give my 2 cents on Cho's fantasy and gameplay)
Amumu
Amumu is yet another engage tank with not too much CC other than his ultimate but some ok damage (Crying) to make up for it. The only reason you would ever pick amumu over malphite or Sejuani is because he's simply stronger than them in the meta, or you are low ELO. Mumu dominates low elo.
Poppy
Poppy is a pretty unique disruptor. She's a counterpick to most mobile characters and does a great job at peeling. She's also a strong backline diver (not as strong as she used to be but still.) She's got some high damage and high crowd control, she is one of the more unique tanks IMO.
Rammus
What on earth does Rammus even do? He taunts people and forces them to kill themselves, he stands there with his ultimate and things die. Rammus is really abnoxious in the right meta/ situations but is not really that good of a champion, his engage is counterable (he just rolls at you with some speed... Yeah...) He fails to really do anything unique other than forcing people to kill themselves.
Singed
Walking simulator. Propably one of the most toxic kits in the game (hehe). Singed is really unique... I guess, he does something that nobody else does. But I don't know if that's a good thing... Not sure what to say about this laughing bastard :^)
Shen
Shen is a tank with some crazy cross map pressure, some dueling power and sweet utilty, he has only one Crowd controll spell tho (and that slow if Q goes thru someone...) To put it in Meddlers words, Shen didn't quite hit the mark thematically .I feel like that should be fixable in a class update, but I might be wrong. Other than that, Shen is propably the best tank when you want to camp botlane, but other than that he's not really that unique compared to other tanks..
Leona
Leona is a support tank with a great engage and peel. She has a lot of crowdcontrol
Alistar
Alistar is a support tank with a great engage, meh peel and one of the best champions for soaking damage without items.
Braum
Braum is a support tank with pretty good engage and great peel. He can have a lot of CC if he and his team mates apply his passive to a lot of enemies.
Tahm Kench
Tahm Kench is a support tank with AMAZING Peel, but other than that he is a ball of stats. He can roam lanes with his ADC, but that's it kinda
Galio
Galio is a great anti mage, and would be great at engaging if he could get inrange without flash. Galio is flawed and needs a rework, but in a way he is also pretty unique. Maybe I shouldn't consider him as a tank, but he is listed as one.
Blitzcrank
Blitzcrank is unique in the way that he is the most annoying piece of sh- uhm...
He's kind of a one trick pony, Hook a person, use the rest of your CC spells (E and R) on them. Or walk up with W, E an enemie and grab afterwards... He's just Blitzcrank.
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Diving Fighters. (Please bear with me here, Some champions might not belong here and some champions are not listed here while they do belong here, The question ''is this champion a diving fighter or not?'' is not as easily awnsered as the question ''is this champion a tank/ assassin?'')
Riven
Riven is known for her overloaded kit Toxic mains , high skill floor and high skills ceiling. She's a great anti tank while also being able to blow up squishies before they have the time to react (Not because she has Rengar like burst, but because of her hard CC) She has 2 hard CC spells which has a lot of value, she has a lot of damage and mobility while also doing a great job at staying alive with all that lifeteal and her E shield. She is reliant on snowballing though. She does a great job at being unique IMO.
Rek'Sai
Rek'Sai has mobility in her own unique way (E) She has a single hard CC spell but does get kited once she used it. She has great damage if she can stay on ya and has a versatile build path.
Hecarim
Hecarim is a champion with a lot of damage, a decent amount of mobility and hard CC (E and R, who both have a long cooldown) Some inbuild healing and whatnot, He's a real pain to deal with once he initiates, but gets bursted quicly once his W runs out. Hecarim is pretty unique but might lack a reason to be picked over other champions unless he's FoTM.
Irelia
Known for being really abnoxious to deal with, she has some to a lot of mobility, if she can keep resetting her Q. She has a lot of sustained damage and a bit of burst when she jumps on ya. She punishes you for winning a trade with her E (abnoxious AF) She's hard to peel away because of her passive and hard to take down because of her W and R healing. She does a lot of things, but I feel like she's not really that unique, she does a lot of the things that Riven does, she just can't engage that well on her own (Riven can) and does some things better.. but ya.
A baker
Puntheon deals A TON of damage, has a tool to initiate a teamfight, has point and klick hard CC, he has good burst but lacks sustain damage and bakes some delicious cake. His kit is flawed for sure and would be a candidate for some work.
Wukong
Wukong is both unique and not unique in my opinion. His W allows for some cool playmaking, but other than that he dives the backline with his E > Q > R combo and tries to burst you down, now there are more ways to play him but he doesn't really have a reason to be picked over other champions in his class....
Warwick
Press R. There, you know how to play WW. Warwick is extremely simple and telegraphed, He desperadly needs a full VGU.
He's a better anti tank than most champs here tho.
Vi
Has a really really really reliable way to dive the backline and most likely has the damage to kill you aswell. I consider her unique allthough she is flawed (Her ult totally lacks counterplay, even more so than Nautilus' ult)
Gnar
is a pretty damn unique champion, he has his ranged form that is used to bully toplane, and his melee form that makes him a great diver with some overlap with the tank class, He's not too strong in the meta but not in need of any rework either IMO.
Xin Zhao
A really simple champion, not really any reason to pick him over Vi, Irelia or whoever unless you are low elo, he tends to dominate there.
Aatrox
THE Diving fighter with the most inbuild sustain. He's a stat check champion who will either die like a bitch or outheal all your damage depending on how ahead he is. He has a cool concept but really deserves a (V?)GU.
Aatrox has no real reason to be picked over other champions in his class, which is sad.
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Assassins. (These guys deserve an itemisaton overhaul TBH, mainly the AD assassins.)
Diana
Rengar
Rengar is a champion who relies on cheesing a guy from stealth. If he fails he'll be useless, if he succeeds he's really abnoxious. He relies on snowballing and is pretty unique allthough he is REALLY problematic. On another thread, I commented saying what I would do if I were to rework Rengar :P Feel free to check it out
Kha'Zix
IMO he is the fairest assassin in the game, he relies on his isolation bonus to kill a person and relies on doing his job correctly to get out of that situation. He is the master of versatility (Evolves) and therefore pretty unique IMO.
Ekko
Ekko is an assasssin with a lot of utitlity, which results in tank ekko being a thing. If he were to get a rework it'd be because of balance, not because of uniqueness.
Nocturne
Nocturne creates chaos like no other. My arms are starting to hurt so I won't go too indepth, but he's very unique but could use some polishing (mainly visually)
Kassadin
THE antimage assassin. He has a history of being problematic and is in an ok (weak-ish) state RN. (If mages were more popular, Kassadin would be stronger aswell.)
Nidalee
''Relies'' on hitting her long range skillshot (or so she should, Cougar deals a lot of damage no matter what.) She has a ton of damage, ton of poke good utility (Heal, AS bonus and vision/map control with W) She's unique and strong, and I really hope Riot fixes that bullshit where her Takedown (cat Q) still goes off even if you flash away before she even reaches you...
Fizz
Allthough he is one of the most annoying champions in the game and I absolutely despise him, he nails his personality of being slippery and hard to catch. FISH. If anything, I feel like he shouldn't be able to kill people with ease even if he's 1 and 9...
Zed
A lanebully with a really effective in and out. He doesn't have the best of reputations but I feel like he would be one of the fairer assassins if he wasn't as strong. He kinda falls off lategame in a way because itemisation counters him really hard
Zed jumps in and out the fight with ease and is pretty unique IMO, His kit isn't as problematic as other assassins but still kinda... eh...
Evelynn
The stealth assassin. In that sense she's pretty unique, but she does really deserve a good amount of work. Visually and gameplay wise.
Akali
Her W is unique, other than that, she's just really abnoxious and doesn't do anything special.
Katarina
THE teamfight snowballing ADC. She has a ton of damage in the right situation and is REALLY unqiue, allthough she does bring a lot of problems.
Leblanc
Leblanc is a lanebully who has some overlap with Zed, but not enough.. Leblanc will anihalte the laningphase and snowball the entire game from there untill she falls off. I disgust her. But that's not relevant here.
Shaco
Shaco is the champion for those who want to see the world burn. He has a ton of issues, but those also make him who he is. Idk if Riot should touch him...
Talon
Talon is the least unique assassin IMO. He has a ton of overlap with other assassins and is only really played when FOTM.
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So who do you guys think should get the last class rework? Do you guys agree with the things I said about these champions? Pleast let me knwo in the comments, What do you like about X champion? Let's give Riot as much information as we can ;)
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--who benefit way too much from the otherwise perfect harmony of stats the item offers when bought early on. Or maybe Riot could rethink the possible impact of implementing an item that gives a gold-efficient and very stat-synergistic MR+AD+flat-arpen+shield combination to aid in the killing of Champions who are already struggling enough. It all seems very goofy to me.