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Tasteful Hero Role Expansion

When adding or removing this mod from an in-progress campaign, it changes what heroes are available to learn. It won't affect existing hero pools. This means if add the mod and learn a hero, you can keep using it even without the mod but there's no way to make every player including AI unlearn the modded roles.

This mod attempts to add more roles to heroes in a tasteful manner. I needed more supports and adcs to use with my fearless draft mod but I didn't want to just unlock all the roles because that makes the AI draft strangely. I went through all 60 heroes and added roles that I felt were gameplay appropriate and powerful in the AI's hands. I did not remove any roles from the original game.

I added a total of 52 roles for 60 heroes. This means on average, each hero got ~1 more role.

Original Game -> Mod Count
Top: 27 -> 34
Jug: 16 -> 24
Mid: 35 -> 47
Adc: 15 -> 23
Sup: 15 -> 32

I never went over 4 roles, and I aimed for 3 roles when it made sense. I made sure no heroes had only 1 role.

My logic.
Every role should have at least 20 characters.
All marksmen and ranged mages can Adc. Only exception in base game is Foso. In mod, exceptions are Qin hu, Deadfire and Kid.
All junglers must have an engage ability. Only exception in vanilla is Kamaitachi. No exceptions in mod.
It should be difficult for ranged heroes to jungle.
Supports, I just gave many heroes who can be a powerful support the support role. If they have debuff, utility, flat stat buffs that don't care about gold or 2v2 advantage then I put them support.
I prioritize tanky or defensive skill heroes so the AI botlane won't become easy to kill.

For top and mid, there are already many heroes, so I just try to put heroes that only have one role mid or top.
Champs that are easy to kill in fight cannot go top so they go mid. Champs that have good movement also go mid.
Champs that already have 3 or 4 roles will not be added to mid or top.