PSA to all assassins(and to Riot), Electrocute is a crutch

VoraciousX··4 votes·873 views

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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

5 Comments

Fízz v22 votes

It's too strong

number of current high tier champs using Electrocute: 3 (counting both Zoe and Vlad as 0.5) lel

My only problem is that it has no counterplay and electrocute summoner 14 = 50% of ur HP gone, Riot should put more power in champ kits and less in stuff like that and item 3147

VoraciousX1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Fízz v2,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=BEP21OR4,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2018-07-15T22:59:25.473+0000)

number of current high tier champs using Electrocute: 3 (counting both Zoe and Vlad as 0.5) lel

My only problem is that it has no counterplay and electrocute summoner 14 = 50% of ur HP gone, Riot should put more power in champ kits and less in stuff like that and item 3147

That's exactly what I'm saying.

Fízz v21 votes

Its not really too strong tho, and I also kinda need it on Fizz if I want to burst people (on PBE Fizz at least)

VoraciousX1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Fízz v2,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=BEP21OR4,comment-id=000000000000,timestamp=2018-07-15T23:11:54.116+0000)

Its not really too strong tho, and I also kinda need it on Fizz if I want to burst people (on PBE Fizz at least)

Electrocute itself IS too strong. Working on Fizz on the PBE is a totally different thing. It's kind of a stretch to focus on one underused champion on a test server. The rune itself is a bigger problem than any singular assassin.

pseudo dionysius1 votes

This combo has been the bane of my existence ever since season 8 began. I'm not sure why it goes untouched. Domination even got buffed to mirror the raw stats that Sorcery gave without touching keystones for some reason.

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