New Champion Role, and Future Champ Roles
So, I was chatting with my friends about the new FLOWER champ, and what role(s) they might end up playing (e.i. mid lane mage, assassin, support, whatever) and it got me thinking. Honestly, when looking at the list of champs we have, and the roles they all occupy, I was surprised at how many champs there are for each role combo. And It got me thinking about what roles we could use more of.
We have 19 assassin fighters, 7 assassin mages, 5 assassin marksmen, 1 assassin support (best champ), no assassin tanks, 8 fighter mages, only 4 fighter marksmen and fighter supports (I still don't get how gangplank is a "support", but whatever), 26 fighter tanks, 5 mage marksmen, 15 mage supports, 5 mage tanks, 1 marksman support, no marksman tanks, and 3 support tanks (this all based off the in game champ store) (and not including champs that only occupy a single role, like Xayah only being labeled marksman, or Rakan only being labeled a support)
Looking at these numbers, it leaves a few roles to be desired, at least in my opinion. I'd love to see more of these roles filled out; more assassin marksmen and supports, fighter marksmen and supports, mage marksmen and tanks, marksmen supports, and support tanks! And I'd especially love to see roles that seem impossible, like assassin tanks and marksman tanks. Obviously, I'm not gonna claim I know anything about balancing, but I feel like it'd be really cool to see some completely different concepts! Maybe an assassin tank with a lot of health and damage output, but with a huge flaw, like no mobility or halved move speed or something.
I don't know why but just thinking about basic ideas and concepts like this are really fun for me. What do you think? Any role combos you'd like to see with future champs? Any thoughts on my ideas? Let me know! This is my first post on here, and I'd love to hear feedback on ideas, and champions, regardless if they're plausible or not!
was classified as a support, and it was because he used to grant an aura buff to nearby allies with an old version of his E called Raise Morale. That ability was removed years ago and Riot never updated his class on some pages... Unless they still consider him a support because he can theoretically add Raise Morale to his ultimate, but he can't reliably collect enough Silver Serpents to even do so from the support role...
The closest remaining match is probably 
but he has too much CC to be a proper juggernaut and his supportive utility keeps getting nerfed so he hardly feels like an enchanter (and never totally did).
There is also no enchanter assassin, though a trickster like 
could be a catcher (another type of controller/support) assassin hybrid.
I think some enchanter marksman hybrids do exist, but their power budget is skewed way too far into playing like regular damage-dealer marksmen because there are no utility marksmen items for them to build and marksmen itemization is all balanced around stacking multiplicative damage with no room for mixing in any utility items.
