You would be careful to use "assassin meta" so liberally. Were you not here for the s4 assassin meta? The champs op listed were merely a few of many who could easily 100 to 0 someone with DFG, and they did either one shot or come close. Full AP Amumu can still do that decently, but not like he did. Good god that was an awful time. Full AP trist jumping in, DFG -> ulting you for an insta-kill and jumping right on out was so annoying. Trying to play standard casters was so much harder than today. I can lane and play against a Talon or Zed or a bruiser as Malzahar or Viktor or some other mage thats not Ziggs and win a good bit of the time. Back then it didn't matter. I may win against the full AP Trist mid in lane, but her good friend full AP Malphite was sure to come in from top, or a Leona-Draven from bot with their Rengar jungle. I could play Mundo and still get killed by 1 DFG-wielding Katarina ins 3 seconds or less with my full MR build. As long as it never gets that bad again, I can learn to play with the new metas as they rise and fall.