Riot lacks Age, Race, and Physical Diversity among the champion roster
TL;DR, so the title says it all, but I'll show some statistics.
After going through all 129 champions (including Jhin), I took off the "monsters" who didn't really have any humanoid features. So some examples would be
(he's a cat),
(a big blob),
(a big stick of energy), and etc. and narrowed it down to 87 champions. Now you might get a higher number, you might get a lower number shouldn't be a big deal.
I then divided the champions by gender, because there is a lack of diversity in both genders.
We will start by looking at the females first. There are 43 females. All the females besides
,
,
, and
appear to be teenage age, or twenties. Now I know
is older than 20 that is the frost queen or whatever, but she has the body of a twenty year old. Or
is an angel, does she have an age? No. But she looks twenty-ish to me, Regarding diversity, Not all of the female champions have a race (
,
,
etc.). But 28 have an identifiable skin color. 2 of the 28 are black. Out the 26 rest of the champions, two are Asian (
and
?), and one is Egyptian'ish (
). See how I have to question that? And the physical aspect, well besides the ones younger than 20,
is the only one that has a non-model esque body or super skinny. What kind of image does that put on females who play this game? Or what type of expectations guys should have for girls out there? To answer you guys, a very sexualized one. For the boys. We see the same trend. The age distribution is a little more focused on a middle aged man type of look like
, though there are champions like
, so props to you guys. Race wise there are 29 champions with kind of identifiable skin tone. 2/29 are black.
, and
are Asian, and the rest Caucasian. "What about
". There isn't any skins that show his ethnicity. Physique-wise, I will have to say there is a bigger range than the females, besides the Yordles and Corki, most are very muscular or lean. Then there is
. So Riot did a little bigger job with the guys.
I want to end off with, even if you don't agree with some of my points or choosing. It is easy to see that the champion diversity isn't that big. On the female side, they are overly sexualized. On the men's side, there is a big promotion on being buff, and lean. On both sides there is a HUGE problem with racial diversity. I know Riot is doing a good job to fill those gaps with releases like Illaoi, and Jhin (body image). But there has to be a bigger change. I think one thing you can do is with the masked champions like Azir, Jax, Shen, make a skin illustrating different races.
One little critic is that if you do search some champions and put "human", or "unmasked", their preset is white (Zed, Heimerdinger, etc.), So designers, prove that there is some diversity even if it is masked.

and arguably

EIGHT champions who are dark skinned, yes you may not be able to see the dark skin on Draven or Riven but me, as hispanic, can tell the difference from white skin and brown.

have darker undertone than:

used to be a toothpick.
of course, all of them are athletic because they are on a fighting grounds, no flabs here unless they come to your advantage (
are monsters even if they were human once or part human?
The fact is that PURE human characters (2 arms, legs, a head, and has a skin color that is in the real world) are entirely outweighed by nonhuman.
(if he even counts) are a few examples of this where they are visually ripped in one aspect or another (skins included).
Because thematically there is no need for female characters to be overly ripped when there aren't even that many overly ripped guys...
Freljordian
Shuriman
Voidborn
Extradimensional (at least until his rework)
Demonic
A literal bag of dicks