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Champion Attributes Filter

Potato Jesus·7/16/2014, 10:15:25 PM·2 votes·839 views

While looking for a new support to buy, I saw that Riot has, to my pleasure, made an Attributes filter tab to easily figure out which champions fit where. However an interesting thing i noticed though is that a lot of champions have attributes in one section that would make more sense if they were in another.

For example, Leona, Alistar, and Blitzcranks are Tanks, and are placed in the tanks group. However this can be quite confusing for newer players, seeing that they are a tank and have no knowledge that they are meant for Bottom lane, may go top, fail, and have a negative attitude towards the certain champ.

Along with that champions with a secondary role, for the most part, should also appear in that specific attribute folder, and champions that are more commonly played in one area should also be included there as well. Ex. Annie and Zyra should appear in the support area, and Lulu in the mages folder.

I feel that it would be a lot more organized and feel more realistic for the current 'meta' if champions would be placed in their respectful area of use.

TL;DR: Filters can be misleading for new players, Some champs should be in other folders or in multiple folders at once.

My two cents.

2 Comments

Jivira7/16/2014, 10:50:18 PM1 votes

One challenge is that as the meta changes they would have to adjust the groupings. Also, what if say 4% of the playerbase uses the champion in another role, at what point do they add the champion to that group?

Along a similar line, they could add some team composition based tags. Synergies like Leona's passive or Braum's defensive abilities yeidl themselves well to bot lane, but less so to top. Similarly, Annie's and Zyra's strong CC skills lend themselves well to bot lane, while their AP scalings yield mage classification.