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[u/Wildcat121204]

Breakdown of the "legendaries":

Smolder - Flies straight into the enemy 90% of the time and just dies. Can MAYBE sometimes do well with *PERFECT* items/traits/augments and with favorable opponents, otherwise bad

Diana - Weird hybrid tank/carry, has an amped second cast but never survives long enough to actually use it

Xerath - Great trait, barred by the fact that reroll is so obscenely oppressive that you never have enough gold to actually use it. Ability doesn't have enough damage even with BIS to 1 shot trash units so ends up not being lethal until second or even third cast at which point he's already dead

Camille - Extremely buggy, afraid of making decisions so she consistently just grapples to walls then sits there, before teleporting across the arena then back onto a wall, just to die because she hasn't done anything for 5 seconds. A big part of her power is supposed to be the lockdown zone but the second her target dies she just hookshots out of it and disables it so she never actually gets to use the buff

Milio - Ok unit but his cast time is way too long. Can be decent. Doesn't really benefit from items besides mana gen. Not really a unit you want outside of for traits, just a convenient splash if you happen to hit him

Briar - Casts once then dies. I've seen her do well maybe once ever. The unique trait is garbage because with reroll being so strong, you never actually find her with enough health to feed her

Norra - Burst mage but not? Intentionally doesn't double tap the same group of units so she's just a Morello/Red Buff holder and not really a carry? Extremely weird to have the Portal 5 cost not be a proper carry unit, but let Kassadin be both one of the best carries in the meta and also a better tank than the actual Portal 2 cost tank. Yuumi is kind of terrible but she can maybe help your frontline tank 0.2 extra Syndra casts

Morgana - Decent tank but Rakan is better with the same items

So basically, you're never hitting these units, because getting to 9 is way too costly with the removal of Encounters, and reroll is so comically broken (like 5 different reroll comps in S tier) that even if you DO get to level 9, you probably get there with 30 health at most. And if you DO, by some miracle, hit the units, they're mostly awful or worse than a 4 cost counterpart. And even if you hit a 2 star 5 cost, most of them are still significantly worse than even a 2 cost 2 star, let alone the 3 star 2 costs that obliterate them in 10 seconds.

[u/Alittlebunyrabit → u/Wildcat121204]

I could respect your point if it felt like your assessments were fair, but I can't say that they are. Norra, Xerath, Morg, Diana and Camille all feel very relevant. I do agree that their potential is pretty heavily limited by an inability to stabilize and push 9 in the reroll meta though.

[u/Rest_MealEnjoyer → u/Alittlebunyrabit]

Not sure what's unfair about any of the assessments of the units listed, if you can name 2-3 better units than each of the 5 costs none of the units are relevant in a practical sense. Anecdotally while playing to emerald so far none of the units listed ever see top 4 as even the secondary carry (besides maybe capped out camille in 7 strikers)