Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-1876049-20150731182500/@comment-24660029-20150809233444

Also, to contribute to this discussion, I think the idea is brilliant. For one, it helps new players understand what the champion's playstyle is, because when I first started playing, I couldn't make heads or tails of the scalings and descriptions and such, and the strategy page is quite unforgving to new players because it assumes you have a decent amount of prior knowledge, then just continuing forward by describing the champion's synergy and build path, not really a solid overall description. Secondly, it adds a sense of contribution to the wiki. You say we shouldn't mess with the official stuff? Then how come we have all these pages about abilities and healing and armor that are completely done by us? I hold that we have some say in the matter of how a champion is recieved by new players.

Secondly, a lot of you are saying that the descriptions are too subjective and will constantly fluctuate with the meta (e.g., reworks, ADC Ahri, etc.). For one, we can certainly change a description if a champion is being reworked, or not include one if we know they will be soon- such as Poppy or Taric. You probably won't have to overhaul a general description if the champion in question is simply tweaked or had some power shifted. Secondly, yeah, you can do ADC Ahri, or tank Shaco, or AP Riven. But that doesnt mean you should. Classes and the champions they encompass are there for a reason. It doesn't matter if you've had success playing a mage as an ADC or an assassin as a tank (coughEkkocough), but its plain dumb, and more likely attributed to the skill of your opponents (or lack thereof) than yours. Ahri was given powerful, AP-scaling spells that synergize with each other, she has low base auto-attack damage, so she is a mage. Shaco is useless without damage and has no hard/impactful CC, no initiation, and no defensive abilities, and thus is a poor choice for a tank. Its not a matter of if you can, its a matter of if you should, because I've played with AP Rivens and crit cahnce Vel'Ki before. It wasn't pretty. Plus, for all this talk of repsecting Riot's wishes and not putting our own thoughts on the official wiki champion page, you sure seem to think class-bending against Riot's intentions is okay.