Two Issues with the Assassin Update

Unlucky47··8 votes·880 views

I like what riots doing with the assassins. There's just two main issues I have.

  1. Akali Shroud Change

When mentioning akali, you guys said you wanted her to have a more dynamic fighting style. With the way you guys made her shroud, It feels like you made it more linear instead. I use my shroud to farm cs because almost everyone beats her pre six and can just harass under tower. But now, since the duration was lessened and I cant place it where I want, It feels like I have less overall mobility and control. The blink is nice and is a good way to give a champion the ability to outplay opponents, but because her shroud is placed at her original location, it doesn't have that much use. To fix this, it would make more sense to put the shroud at the location she blinks to instead of behind her.

  1. Lack of AP/Magic Pen Items

With the amount of ap assassins in the game, it feels kind of unfair that they don't get any new items or updates. One glaring problem i've always had is that there is only three magic pen items in the game. And even with all these items, you can't kill an adc who only has a maw. Compared to the amount of armor pen, flat and scaling, it almost seems ridiculous to only have one actual magic pen item. There are a couple of ways to fix this. I think that lich bane, being mostly built on ap assassins, should give a small amount of magic pen. I also think that there should be a similar item to black cleaver, but maybe without the health. Champions like diana, akali, ekko, kat, or most of the ap assassins could use a stacking mechanic to whittle down MR.

It is VERY important to note that these items should be tailored to AP ASSASSINS. Mages getting too much mr would make them extremely strong, more so than they already are. I say this because assassins are supposed to take out priority targets, but mages getting too much magic pen can wipe entire teams like brand, vel'koz, annie, etc.

If these are taken into consideration, that would be great. Thanks for reading.

7 Comments

Ralanr4 votes

More magic pen without more MR is a bad idea.

Penns2 votes

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/6/69/Edge_of_Night_item.png/revision/latest?cb=20161019005303 tho Also health is better against magic than against physical damage anyway most of the time.

Unlucky472 votes

I disagree. Buying a banshees veil is all tanks need to negate damage from mages. On the other hand, they need two or three armor items to almost stand against ad champs. and an adc can just build maw and not get bursted, but building armor doesnt save them at all.

FantasySniper2 votes

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I also think that there should be a similar item to black cleaver, but maybe without the health. Champions like diana, akali, ekko, kat, or most of the ap assassins could use a stacking mechanic to whittle down MR.

That sounds suspiciously like item 3091 . Which honestly isn't the worst item on Akali, Diana, or Ekko. I guess it would be cool to see them split up Wit's End so that it's more specialized between either off-tanks or AP assassins.

Unlucky472 votes

forgot about wits end. Its just not that good in my opinion because its dependent on auto attacks. Diana maybe but akali is alot more burst oriented and it would take away from her burst.

FantasySniper2 votes

Akali will get an on-hit healing in her rework. Wit's End won't hurt, especially since it'll be harder to get by hiding in her smoke.

Diana is just as bursty as Akali? ... I never really see Akalis kill as fast as Diana.

Unlucky471 votes

after diana burst down one person, they can keep up the fight with their passive because her third autos do tons of damage. Its the reason she builds nashors for attack speed.

And akalis cooldowns are so low that she can run through her combo several times

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