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League of Assassins & Their Prioritization

Sir Inugami·11/7/2019, 10:15:47 PM·6 votes·812 views

Would it be feasible to expect some nature of response or Dev Discussion from Riot as to why Assassins, their itemization and their kits are receiving such special treatment? Is there a reason that they're getting more itemization options as well as buffs for existing items such as the removal of Lethality being unique per item?

Each patch things seem to get worse, with champions such as the recent Pantheon even becoming assassins and it's completely ignored. Pantheon has seen a 100% Pick/Ban rate in Worlds this year and his resulting nerfs was a very slight range nerf on his W. Literal finger tap on the wrist for being so blatantly strong. Then we have the Ekko and Kai'Sa problem, then we have the fact that despite being on the "weak" side, both Yasuo and Zed remain two of the highest picked and banned champions in Solo Queue. Nothing is done about their kits, no community advice or feedback is ever taken on balancing them... any of them.

It has become incredibly frustrating playing any non-mobile/assassin champions that just can't compete past lane phase or sometimes even during.

Remember when Assassins weakness was their lane phase? Their inability to waveclear and really skirmish early on? Now we have Ekko and Qiyana who can clear an entire wave in just one or two Qs with extremely low mana costs and cooldowns, or Zeds and Yasuos who can equally clear waves faster than control mages can (But y'all nerfed the hell out of control mages because "it created unfun lanes due to how fast they could clear waves."

1 Comments

boricCentaur111/8/2019, 12:02:22 AM1 votes

It's called adding diversity to assassins builds something they actually never really had. Adding more items is good and healthy for them.

Like 90% of what you said is nonsense. "Pantheon even becoming assassins and it's completely ignored." What??? He doesn't play like one he can build lethality but he has always done that but isn't what make a assassin a assassin.

Yas and zed are both pick and ban a good amount because of players nothing else that's why the higher up you go the less you see them played or banned. They are good at carrying in low elo meaning they'll be played and banned lot.

If you are getting out cleared by a assassin you're not playing a champion that should clear or you're bad at it. Talon is the best at clearing then any assassin in the game but he is still worse then a sol at it.

Maybe try learning how to play vs them instead of complaining? Like I don't think you even seen a assassin going by how you talk in this post. Since assassins should be good at fighting early and clearing SINCE THEY ARE EARLY TO MID GAME CHAMPIONS AND FALL OFF PRETTY HARD.

Also love that you don't say ad assassins since you completely ignore ap assassins since you don't understand what a assassin is.