Breaking down the Marksman Class.

F0R THE H0RDE·3/13/2018, 1:45:23 PM·1 votes·405 views

This is in reference to Riot's more recent look at Subclasses, more specifically the Marksmen class and its LACK of Subclasses. Obviously the Marksmen class is filled with a bunch of unique concepts that all (for the most part) strive to achieve the same goal so its fairly hard to break the class down. With that said, I think I have figured out a decent way to categorize all of the Marksmen into two Subclasses: Lane Bullies and Scalers. Definitely room for improvement (especially in the name compartment) but in my head it mostly works. Lane Bullies being Marksmen that want to crush lane and snowball into the mid game to make plays and finish games off early. Scalers being Marksmen that aren't very good early on but ramp up towards the mid game and become monsters in the late-game. The breakdown would look something like this:

LANE BULLIES -Lucian -Ezreal -Jhin -Miss Fortune -Kalista -Draven -Caitlyn -Corki

SCALERS -Vayne -Varus -Kog'maw -Kindred -Jinx -Xayah -Sivir -Tristana -Twitch

Its far from perfect but its functional and looks a little better than having all Marksmen clustered into the same category. The only real outlier from this list would be Ashe as she doesn't really try to crush lane nor does she scale super hard. This is due to her being very utility focused, she's almost like a supporty marksman. Any thoughts/input?

Edit Here is a link to the Riot post I am referring to: https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/gameplay/taking-another-look-subclasses

6 Comments

Kythers3/13/2018, 1:50:20 PM1 votes

Jhin is neither

what a terrible pick

[sg-janna]

MooooooooreDakka3/13/2018, 6:53:04 PM1 votes

I'd say splitting it by duelists such as Lucian, Vayne, and Kalista, backline dps focused such as Twitch, Jinx, and Kog, and utility such as Ashe, Cait, Ez, and what Varus is supposed to be.