Like, it really is. Assassins have been pretty weak for a long time now (mainly assassins in the mid lane, not jungler assassins. AP assassins like Fizz and Diana are also quite weak atm), yet people bitch on these boards and act as if they are completely overpowered.
Assassins are just frustrating to die to. They may be balanced, but if all someone on the enemy team sees is some skinny waifish guy deal a ton of burst damage and uses his ninjitsu to turn into a log to get away, it can be pretty annoying for the victim.
That being said, if you play a tanky guy and see an assassin, you can easily bitch slap that assassin into quantum uncertainty. It's all a matter of perspective.
I find it funny because I saw this assassin main comment on this old thread a while back saying that he will always consider assassins weak "until I can one shot a tank". Then we are asked why we dislike assassins, they can't get over the fact that they can't always just delete anything they see who isn't their ally lol. But honestly I stopped trying to reason with different players about their main class, it's just pointless.
Kha'zix has also been broken as fuck for about 4 months. Every other assassin has sucked whether it be support cockblock or poor laning because they're melee.
Fizz is weak at the moment? Give me the number of your dealer. He's so weak that he has the 2nd highest win rate in master tier, 7th highest in platinum, 4th highest in gold. I seriously would love it if people like would do some research before spouting off BS that's not based in reality.
On the other hand, I know full and well it's pretty routine for assassins to complain they can't 1v2 the ADC and Support since that's expected for some reason.
Assassins are balanced...when they don't get snowballed. A really fed Fizz can often kill via sheer brute force once he gets fed enough. This basically leaves whoever he wants to murder with zero counter play as they'll be dead before they can retaliate.
Why? Because assassins are a pain in the arse to deal. Even more if they get the slight lead.
Most of the board players are ADC mains.. so yep the amount of bias against assassins and tanks are absurd. Sadly most rioters are adc and support mains, so even more bias there.
Never will forgot the post that complained that they got counterpicked because they were first picked, and wanted to nerf assassins for it
Winrates for midlane assassins
Fizz 52.92% Kassadin 49.02% Talon 51.89% Ekko 51.89% Katarina 51.97% Leblanc 51.19% Ahri 51.84% Diana 50.77% Zed 49.5%
"Assassins have been pretty weak for a long time now." Sure they are.
(diana is not an assassin though)
this counts for both sides...
Many people constantly complain like theyre actually unpplayable, and then vice versa.
It's like the "sniper phenomenon" in every single shooter you'll ever play.
People just don't like being one shot. It doesn't matter if they make themselves vulnerable, aren't watching the map, haven't placed wards or get spectacularly outplayed. It wouldn't even matter if assassins were extremely underpowered, someone somewhere is getting oneshot and boy are they going to complain.
Like, it really is. Assassins have been pretty weak for a long time now (mainly assassins in the mid lane, not jungler assassins. AP assassins like Fizz and Diana are also quite weak atm), yet people bitch on these boards and act as if they are completely overpowered.
Your bias is worse. If it wasn't, you'd have noticed that the boards bitch about every class and every sub-class.
