Why are people so scared at high skill/assasin champions

Laura ß··2 votes·745 views

Meanwhile everyone seems to accept dumb low skill champions like Annie Lux Chogath Malzahar who can 1 shot you just as well as any assasin in the game but with much less skill, risk and thought put into.

And lets not forget that AD assasins need a very specific team and enemy comp to work effectively unlike the previous mention champions. So why so scared at playing against this champions and ban them all the time and fuck us who main them Yasuo Zed Talon

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Big Lincoln5 votes

high skill lol

PhearBunny4 votes

the issue with high skill champs is that, they are literally better than other champions on the premise that they are hard to play.

That's not balance.

and hard to play is subjective.

SEKAI3 votes

Annie and Zed have the same amount of risk involved in their 1-shot (not specifically to do with the 2 champs exclusively, but to refer to the 2 groups you are contrasting), let's not kid ourselves.

Also, Malz and Cho don't 1-shot. Malz is a 1-hit-wonder with his R, sure, but his full combo rarely kills you by itself; Cho has been nerfed, the meme-bite has already been addressed many patches ago.

DuskDaUmbreon3 votes

Because the amount of skill involved isn't the issue, the issue is the agency you have against it.

You can dodge Lux's Q, R, and now her E. You can stay out of Annie's range while her passive is ready. Cho'gath...Okay. Cho'gath is bullshit. Malzahar, you can dodge his Q, you can avoid his E passover, and you can kill his voidlings. His R is point and click, but it doesn't enable him to land any part of his kit, unless it was already going to hit.

Zed? If he ults you, you either have enough effective health to survive him, you have Zhonya's, or you're dead, assuming he's good. He can take all the skill in the world. He might have to hit you with all three E's and Q's from him and his shadows. But once he ults, it's 100% on him to fuck it up. It's not a "Oh, he played that better than I did, oh well", it's a "Oh, he had enough skill, so I died". The difference is that you get no skill expression in avoiding him. No matter how perfectly you time flash, he's landing his E, and he's very likely to land his Q. And odds are, he's getting an auto in. And you're losing most - if not all - of your health.

Yasuo? He has things you can dodge, and stay away from, sure, and he takes a good amount of skill, but if you can't outrun him, he's going to Q>Q>EQ>R you.

Talon? Don't even joke about him being high skill. He's pathetically low-skilled. And the only thing you can even try to dodge on him is his W, and that's basically never going to miss on the way out.

tl;dr: The problem isn't that assassins are low skill. The problem is that our skill doesn't matter against them, only their skill matters, and that feels like bullshit to play against.

ToothpickSamurai2 votes

The difference is the time in which they are useful, Annie Lux Malzahar can't one shot you at level 6 unless you feed them an unprecedented number of kills. An assassin will kill you once and run away with the game, cause they will significantly be that much stronger early game. On top of that they fall off late game with maybe the exception of Yasuo who is always all over the place, mages on the other hand tend to be so much stronger late game.

Ok sure but why1 votes

Annie needs a rework

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