New Champion Descriptions
When you click on a champion in the "Champions" toolbar in your profile, you get four bars that supposedly describe attack, defense, magic, and difficulty. As it currently stands, this system is somewhat reliable, but there are a few problems that could confuse players early on/ I think that the current way of deciding what bars are what height are how much their abilities scale off of Attack Damage or Ability Power, as well as if they should be played tanky or not. As it stands, a few champions have awkward ratings for some categories.
- Aatrox, Corki, Graves, and Gnar have too high of an Ability ranking
- Gragas, Janna, Lulu, and Malphite have too high of an Attack ranking
- LeBlanc, Morgana, Quinn, and Varus have too high of a Defense ranking
I propose that the champion, instead of one bar for each, they have a pie chart and three bars. The first chart will be how important it is to BUILD a certain type of item on them. If the champion benefits best from building Attack stats, the Attack section in the bar will be higher. Same with defensive items, magic items, and team-supporting items. These can all be in percentages.
The first and second bar will be the damage OUTPUT for each champion. First bar is physical, and second bar is magical. If they do high physical damage, the bar will be high. If they do about equal, then it will be equal. If the champion does low damage overall or should not be built to do damage, then the bars will both be low. The last bar is difficulty, which should remain relatively the same. I recommend that these all be on a scale of 1 to 10
For example, Shyvana currently has an Ability rank of 3, but only her E scales off of Ability Power, and that should definitely not be her main source of damage. However, BOTH her W and her E do magic damage. Shyvana's CHART would be mostly Defense, some Attack, and perhaps a tiny bit of Magic. Her magic BAR would be about 3, but her attack BAR would be around 6.
I have a spreadsheet with some sample champions that I have some experience with. There are no graphs or charts here yet, but I will add them when I can. Feel free to add champions to the spreadsheet or give feedback!
The main reason I do this is because of what new players may think when they see these bars. If a champion has an Ability ranking of something more than 4, then the player might be inclined to build some Ability Power but find that there isn't much of a difference, or that building Attack stats would be much more useful for what the champion is meant to do. There could also be an option to view different kinds of build settings. Ezreal comes to mind here. You can go AP or AD Ezreal, and having two different sets of charts and graphs would be better than having only one. Same goes for Eve (AP, Tank, AD), Morgana (Support, AP), or Gragas (Tank, AP).