PSA to all assassins(and to Riot), Electrocute is a crutch
This rune is single handedly the reason people complain about assassins so much, and I can almost guarantee that. I can do my job as an assassin without it and so can other assassins, but electrocute is so strong that it crowds out other sources of damage(including dark harvest which should be an assassin rune). It's too strong, and here are some ways I thought of that might fix it:
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Nerf it's base damage. It has extremely high base damage and considering it's adaptive it also works with lethality well, and since AP assassins don't rush pen first item, that makes it not as good on AP assassins early as well, but that's a different conversation. Of course I can understand that if Electrocute is nerfed too much Dark Harvest will just take it's place, but if you keep the rune as is, it'll just crowd out everything else.
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Change it slightly. You could make it where that 2 attacks on an enemy champion give you "Static" or something, and give you so many seconds to get an auto attack in, that auto attack would proc Electrocute. This would force assassins to actually go in like they're supposed to. You could give it a cooldown reduction in this case as well because it wouldn't be procced as often. Another option is instead of auto attacking, make it like Aftershock, make it a small AOE that appears around you after so many seconds, meaning you have to be on top of the enemies. Like Pikachu Thunderbolt in Smash Bros.
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Remove it and replace it with a new rune. As I said, Electrocute is a crutch and isn't NECESSARY for assassins to do their job. You could replace it instead with a new rune that helps them in other ways. For example you could give them a rune called Bounty Hunter(iirc there was an old rune called that), that gives them extra gold when killing enemy champions, possibly even double, since it'd be a keystone, or maybe make it extra gold on bounties specifically but that'd require an enemy to be ahead. If it becomes too strong it could also give extra gold to enemies when they killed you.
These are just my thoughts, agree or disagree, but I feel like electrocute is just extra damage for the sake of it, and not required for assassins because it does more than their entire combo. for the most part. I'd much rather have a rune that takes effort.
