There is something wrong with every assassin
But it's a lot of different things. There isn't one singular thing that makes assassins unhealthy. A lot the stuff in their kits can work. But every single one is screwed up in some way, and the sheer amount of missed opportunities to finally make one that's healthy is really starting to piss me off.
: Binary; either stomps or sucks
: Ends up as a bruiser
: Doesn't pay enough for how much safety and utility he has
: See Diana
: Trollpole, while balanced, is infuriating as hell
: Infinite mobility means he's either broken or fairly weak
: Good at taking out several targets (more than one or two, consistently)
: Isolation means he either does little or deletes you
: Way too safe
: Also has one of the best poke spells in the game and the best targeted heal
: Zero-counterplay deletion
: BS stealth-jump (note: still probably the best assassin design IMO)
: Either instantly kills a single person or is worthless
: Infinite poke/waveclear to match many mages and a passive that puts you in EZmode for CSing the entire game
Probably missed one or two.
But yeah, the amount of missed opportunities infuriates me to no end. The good part is that many of them could be fixed to not be infuriating to play against every time they're picked. For example, Zed's actual assassination tools have good counterplay, it's the other crap he gets that pushes him over the edge.


, though, I can't blame them.
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