User blog comment:Grrrbear26/Ao Shin Character model theories/@comment-24045906-20131013173717/@comment-9593635-20131014010427

I think the reason we have so many mages is that it's a lot easier to make a truly unique mage or fighter than a unique marksman... though Riot does seem to be getting better at it, lately.

I mean, compare Ziggs and Elise, or compare Riven and... any other fighter. Admittedly, they're on opposite ends of the spectrum, but look at the opposite ends of the Marksman spectrum: Vayne and Cait are still, at the end of the day, going to shoot you for big damage crits and that's what's going to kill you. They all come down to that, really.

I think that a new "type" of marksman needs to be formally introduced before they'll be able to carve as broad a swath in champion numbers as Mages, and Lucian and Jinx have been a good step in that direction: ranged AD casters. When a marksman's kit is not about "how can I autoattack the most and hardest", then and only then will we start to see other types of marksmen.