He was not made specifically to address the lack of masculine ADCs but myself and IronStylus really cranked up the testosterone because of it. That's why he ended up with an absurdly sized shotgun, a bulky dad-bod and an excessive amount of hair.

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For the vision reduction mechanic I had the rest of the kit complete at that point and I knew I needed a primarily utility move as he already had enough damage, and placing more damage on W meant I would have to pull damage out of other spells and reduce their impact and satisfaction. The reason I chose vision reduction was it was a suggestion from Coronach (former champ designer) as a CC type we hadn't used much. It fit reasonable well thematically as a smoke canister and fit with my idea that I wanted this guy to be in melee and scrapping with dudes.

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In particular I liked the vision reduction was the one CC type in LoL that is more effective vs Ranged champions than Melee ones. This doesn't do much at all versus a Xin Zhao training on your face but absolutely lets you fight those other Marksman with 600+ attack range.

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I know it's a pretty polarized mechanic on the frustration side, but I really appreciate the mental game that occurs with vision denial and I would take that any day over getting hit with a Root or a Stun or something that temporarily removes agency as opposed to something that limits my information available but still leaves me in full control of my character. As a Marksman archtype that generally have pretty low amounts of CC this felt like a good middle ground in regards to making a mechanic that was impactful and made a lot of sense on his kit mechanically.

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There are two elements than limit his skin potential.

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Thematically it's a little more difficult, though there is also some cool opportunity with a mech that is unique to Rumble it does limit your options quite a bit. A theme like masquerade would be out of the question :D

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In terms of actually crafting the skin - the more complex the model and rig the harder it is to make a skin for and this is actually a factor. This is why skins for Udyr, Zyra, etc are really challenging because it's simply so many more models and skins to effectively make for a single skin. This is time that could be spent on other skins or even other projects entirely.

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So a Rumble skin is do-able but thematically there are more limits than other skins so many skin lines just wouldn't work with him and there is a higher opportunity cost just in raw time to produce than many other champions. None of this is impossible by any means but it does mean we tend to make less skins for Rumble than other champions.

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It's always been they are generally viewed as necessary to take down and siege structures. This was the push for the change in the mid-season mage update to allow mages to better scale their basic damage against structures (and also the reason for the AP Ratio on basic attacks vs towers to begin with). Other classes haven't been able to provide that level of structure damage and the level of sustained damage in teamfights that marksmen provide often needed to take out large beefy targets. I think there is probably potential now to make a teamcomp work without them but I'm not sure folks have been aggressively testing in that space and how the teamcomp would shake out once that element is removed.

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They are played Bot Lane primarily for Dragon control. It's a powerful objective you need to be able to contest which means you want as many players as possible present. Mid lane is a lane that is safe enough that you don't need to a support to survive even if in a losing lane so teams leave that to the solo player and since Marksmen scale better with items over levels they need the single lane experience less than their mage or assassin counterparts who tend to scale better off levels over items.

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