[2020] Champion Roadmap: June 2020

Nah, we usually have a primary position we balance around, but that doesnt mean champs wont have other positions they can flex into as well

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Marksmen is Squad5, Mage is RiotJag and tank is Stashu

We weren't sure back then if the Champ would end up a skirmisher or Assassin, as we got further into development it became clear it should be a Assassin, though i still think it will be a bit of a hybrid assassin/melee carry

The point wasnt that only mid lane has different playstyles, it was that the 2 playstyles in midlane have a similar amount of players as entire other positions. It's true top has tank and fighters, but the vast majority of top laners play fighters. Fighter players tend to play skirmishers, juggernauts, divers, and they aren't very picky between those classes, so making something in one of those classes is usually appealing to a majority of our top lane players. The amount of top lane tank players is pretty small in comparison to top fighter players or mid assassin/skirmisher players. The amount of people that play top tanks really doesn't justify making a tank every year. The same can be said for tank jungler players. We will still make tanks for these positions just not as often, and not every year. Support is interesting in that, though there are a lot of playstyles, most support players play all the different styles, this is probably due to the mentality of support mains, who tend to be more "team player" type players and they are willing to play whatever style there team needs, so when we make any type of support most support players will try them out.

Its kind of a Assassin/Skirmisher hybrid, but leans a little closer to Assassin

This was mainly because our old strategy (which we shifted this year as outlined in thic blog) included VGUs in our role diversity for the year. There are a lot of junglers in need of VGUs which led to us doing a lot of VGUs for junglers and this basically caused us to make less new junglers as a result.

That is the current plan yes, though that can always shift

Hell yeah

It's more of a Assassin/skirmisher hybrid, but as we got further on in development we realized it leaned a bit more towards Assassin. I think if you like melee carry skirmishers you will still love this champ

Maxwell is working on the Jungler and EndlessPillows is working on the Assassin

Maxwell

What about Pyke, my data shows his still primarily played as a support with like a 85% support playrate compared to other roles.

Possibly, we don't usually finalize the title until much later in the process, It will really depend on if the title still makes sense with his updated direction or not

just wait ;)