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Give me one good reason to run an assassin mid lane over a mage

TIME TO LOSE KID·9/30/2016, 4:01:33 AM·4 votes·2,462 views

Assassins: Bad/no waveclear Primarily single target Little to no utility Complete liability past 25 minutes Risky picks, will be completely useless if they don't snowball Completely invalidated by and Have to commit to kills

Mages (and Gangplank since he's basically the AD equivalent of a mage): Amazing waveclear AOE Utility Scale Safe picks, can function by just CSing properly Cast from the backline while still keeping up with assassins in terms of damage output Are called "AP carries" for a reason

Your Zed went 5/0? lmao doesn't matter good luck trying to siege against Lux/Xerath/Anivia without baron buff. Your team comp didn't cater to your AD assassin Talon mid laner? Good luck trying to beat the braindead tanks who stack armor.

Funnily enough the only time assassins are god tier nowadays is if they fuck off and stay in the jungle where they can roam and snowball because they simply do not have the tools to be successful mid laners.

18 Comments

Talinis9/30/2016, 4:09:10 AM3 votes

Assassins are outclassed in many ways from mages and overall mages as a whole have more power than assassins, especially since you tend to need massive aoe and range wave clear from mid and the CC they bring. However, assassins hold the advantage in getting ahead early, with more kill power and pick potential and they hold more mobility which is a critical component in controlling the flow of the game. Getting an advantage, they can help to snowball the other lanes and spiral the game out of control while a mage would still be farming.

Not all assassins are poor scaling as well. Fizz is one of the best scalers in the game with over 4.0 AP scaling... if he lands a combo full build late game, single target, the damage is over 5.5k and that's with both a void staff and abyssal. Any squishy just gets instantly popped. He beats most tanks as a result as well because of the sheer burst and then sustain damage with W and low Q nuke cd making him a good split push. His AOE isn't bad either with 720 base and 1.7 AP scaling. He can solo carry even late game team fights because of the damage.

Erockandroll9/30/2016, 4:05:26 AM2 votes

one good reason?

Top: Rumble Jungle: Nidalee ADC: Corki

hey, maybe AD isn't that important.

specter4249/30/2016, 4:11:31 AM1 votes

Mages way less chance of pulling off a 1v9.

Killerjays9/30/2016, 4:28:18 AM1 votes

Assasin's early game bring lane pressure, and can make squishy mages play safe most of the game and make them lose cs under the turret. Most mages like Anivia (relies on end game scaling) and Ahri are useless if they aren't ahead. My personal favorite mid lane asassin is Diana because you can Cs from a distance with your Q, and lv 6 you will most likely have a better item build than a mage that needs a lot of gold for items like item 3027 and item 3285 , and can run attack speed with item 3115

Akali is SO HOT9/30/2016, 5:04:33 AM1 votes

If you want to meme or troll

ZED G0D9/30/2016, 5:20:11 AM1 votes

As a Zed main I have no problem at all crushing Ahri Cassiopeia Karthus Leblanc Orianna Syndra Veigar Ziggs

...the only mid mage i have issues with is Annie Viktor

CppL9/30/2016, 6:24:38 AM1 votes

I assume to talking about ad assasins. no waveclear? zed ,talon ,yasou? has no waveclear? are you kidding me? Single target? talon single target? yasou with right team comp ,single target? Utility ,well assasins cant have utility ,we learn that lesson in a hard way Ekko Ad assasins also has better itemization.You can rush zhonyas as mage but after few rotations say bye bye to your mana pool.Meanwhile ad assasins can rush hexdrinker and make you useless,if you playing burst mage.Also mages dont have mobility ,unlike assasins. P.s summoner 3 destroy mages to ,you know.

Cyromo9/30/2016, 7:43:43 PM1 votes

Ahri doesnt have amazing wave clear. Yasuo has wave clear Zed does Talon does What about when the assassin does siege and gets inside the mages range. Which since its a melee assassin isn't really hard. They are suppose to get in and out

Astôlfo9/30/2016, 7:47:06 PM1 votes

Mobility + early game pressure + splitpushing

YambrinZ9/30/2016, 4:08:49 AM1 votes

There is no good reason. Assassin meta has been gone for awhile now lol.