Assassin Update rant

It's funny what you write sometimes haha....Anyways, here's something I wrote before Ardent became a living nightmare. A lot of this is quite dated, however it still addresses what it sets out to address, being assassins.

As a Kat main, the rework, while fun, still doesn't fix her core issues, in fact it makes them 10x worse. Katarina is still useless for her team, while Rengar, Talon and LB are WAY more useful as a whole. I could rant on for days about how they fucked up, but I'll do something better. But on the note of Kat, they made her too niche' overall, like sure it's nice, but it still doesn't make her any better overall (though this Kat is better for outplaying). Adding more counterplay to already existing counterplay makes no logical sense to me. Instead of changing everything entirely, why don't they simply NERF the things that require nerfing and hard buff champs which don't offer much and/or don't contribute to the meta. For starters, tanks have to be tanks for the WHOLE game, not bruisers which are bar unkillable, yet deal your entire HP pool as DPS or burst, simply because they have CC and high mixed damage. Another thing, add in more MAGIC PEN. items, as since the meta is dominated by tanks and utility items+champs, there needs to be additional ways for the likes of Katarina and Akali (AP assassins) to counterplay this, without being utterly useless due to it. The only options Kat has to beat tanks in terms of items are Abyssal and Void staff, both of which don't fix the problem. Liandrys is not good on Kat since AOE damage cuts the damage in 1/2 and the she still can't flinch tanks. Exhaust also needs some fine tuning, as right now it kinda gives too much for a targeted "disable", and it also reduces resistances for some odd reason.

As for the other assassin changes, K6 is still busted, if not even worse. AD Shaco got butchered, and Fizz actually got viable (which I'm fine with). Akali I'm fine with considering they're promising to rework her entirely, so I understand why she only got a softcore treatment.

Also, yeah....they say "Assassin update", yet they released Redemption, a broken support item which basically is a huge fuck you to damage dealers all around, and get this, it does, wait for it....TRUE DAMAGE to enemies AND heals allies. Yeah....this was not a healthy decision for the game at all.

Shyvana getting some tweaks was nice, she's finally viable again, woop-dee-doo, about time.

Vayne-wise, instead of fixing the problems with Crit items they nerf her instead because she is "too strong". Wrong, Vayne herself isn't strong, it's the build which is the major problem, it's too efficient, and Warlord's is currently waaaay too good for ADCs all round. Also, no Jhin nerfs yet? Very surprising considering his impact on both competitive play and solo q play. Karma was also left untouched, which is extremely surprising since she had an 84% pickrate in worlds and an above 75% winrate in said worlds. Not a good decision at all, especially considering Redemption is her bread and butter item now along with Athene's.

Jungle wise, Runic echoes and Cinderhulk are still the most prevalent smite upgrades, and blue smite is next to forgotten when Red smite is better in almost every single scenario. The whole changing of the jungle was also un-needed, bar Raptors, since the raptors were honestly the only thing deserving of change, due to mid laners valuing them so highly.

I honestly think the true "Assassin update" will be Camille's release, since good god does she look good at picking off and murdering squishies. (boy was I right)

My honest opinion, revert the Rengar rework entirely, it FLOPPED big time, it didn't increase his skill ceiling (the sheer opposite actually) and it turned him into a hard to balance piece of shit. Revert the Kat changes for the most part, but keep her auto reset and Ult changes, since they're healthy. Depending on how it goes I would say to keep the Leblanc changes, but maybe revert the Ult change since it's not exactly optimal, and too gimmicky. Shaco HAS to be reverted, that "rework" honest to god butchered him. Fizz is fine. Ekko's was needed. Talon's should stay, since it hit pretty spot on for what Riot wanted and what the players wanted, except I'd say to speed up how fast his W returns. Redemption needs a hard nerf, the item is far too overstat'd already and its active is just flat out broken. And finally, nerf Courage of the Colossus. With all of this done I honestly think assassins will be in a decent spot ^_^