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Unused Champion Attribute Pairings

Ariaflux·2/23/2015, 9:57:04 AM·1 votes·447 views

According to this list of champions, every champion in the game is labelled with 1 or 2 champion attributes. Some may argue that it's inaccurate, but I think that these tags at least match some aspects of the champions and almost never is it completely out of whack.

For example, people argue that Urgot is not a marksman, but in my opinion, Urgot matches most of the description for marksman as defined by Riot. It's an attribute, not the role of the champion in the current metagame. Just because all ADCs are marksmen doesn't mean all marksmen are ADCs. Similarly, champions designed as mages but played as support in the current metagame do not need to be labelled as support. Their kit is essentially different.

I made a quick list of attribute pairings that is not used for any champions created so far:

  • Assassin / Support and Support / Assassin
  • Assassin / Tank and Tank / Assassin
  • Marksman / Tank and Tank / Marksman

There are also 2 pairings that do not exist, but their reverse does:

  • Assassin / Marksman, but there are 4 Marksman/Assassin champions: Teemo, Tristana, Twitch, Vayne.
  • Support / Marksman , but there is 1 Marksman/Support champion: Ashe.

3 of the 4 Marksman/Assassin champions have stealth, so that explains their secondary tag. I believe Tristana was an assassin purely due her AP build, which is effectively deleted from the game. However, her new AD kit also have a lot of burst (E, Q, 4 hits, W, R), so I guess she can still count as an assassin for now.

I can think of how an Assassin/Marksman can be designed: Ranged burst castor, but also able to do sustained damage from auto attacks, albeit lowered. They need severe drawbacks to make up for this amount of power though, like short range with no mobility.

As for Support/Marksman, perhaps a ranged support that builds AD and supports by doing damage like Vel'Koz support?

For the other tags, I'm hard-pressed to think of a kit that can combine the 2 attributes, without making it seem overpowered (Tank that can go into the middle of enemy team and assassinate someone? Marksman that does a lot of damage but can't be bursted down?).

What kind of champions do you think will fit these tags?

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