They're trying to simplify things. Besides that it's at 3-6 range after a few more deploys. Archer fits pretty well.
I would have to agree with this. Rangers theme does need some range help but maybe if a theme enabler came out in the future that gave rangers pounce or something would be more flavorful than including archers and calling them rangers. I feel the ranger theme would pair well with ST as a split theme. They have a ton of rangers and items like Darius' Favor that would help fill this roll. To bad the split hero is a warrior.
I rest my case. Dont know about that theme but I'm in favor of split themes, also ST and KF are both wild factions so a ranger split theme would fit well.