User blog comment:Emptylord/Blogs/Upcoming class rework/@comment-24951773-20160605003028/@comment-24951773-20160605021516

>He's a proximity-based threat

That's true, but that's not what Riot's definition of juggernaut is. If it was, Maokai, Malphite, and Rammus would all be juggernauts

>Sion doesn't have reliable CC

His Q is only unreliable if your target has good mobility, and his E and ult are only unreliable if you can't aim.

You're free to your opinion, though Riot themselves have gone on record as saying that Sion is NOT a juggernaut. I don't usually agree with Riot. I disagree with them more often than not. But this time I think they've got it right.

The main difference between tanks and juggernauts should be that juggernauts have the capability to do decent damage, which Sion doesn't.

I think that juggernaut should be a subclass of bruiser, rather than a subclass of tank. If a tank's main objective is to build health/resistances and soak damage, while a bruiser's main objective is to be a damage dealer that boasts a decent amount of health/resistances, than juggernauts are much more in common with bruisers, since they typically lack hard CC while dealing a good amount of damage to any target they can get their hands on. Once again, I don't consider as purely a juggernaut for the same reason that I disagree with skarner's inital classification as a juggernaut: because not only does he have mobility and hard CC, he deals good damage in spite of building tank items. However there is a good bit of nuance in his kit that makes me think at the very least his secondary role should be considered juggernaut.

My issues with Morde being a "melee marksman" are:

1. I truly don't think Riot can balance a melee bruiser intended to replace the botlane adc. Especially one without any mobility or any CC. He would always be either overpowered or underpowered.

2. The whole premise offends me personally. This rework was clearly experimental in the sense of "lets create a melee bruiser intended to serve in the botlane instead of the well established adc" and they chose to do this to a pre-existing champion with a small but devoted fanbase, instead of developing a new champion from scratch to occupy the role.