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Anticipating Assassin Rework Season 7

Andiris··1 votes·617 views

So, as someone who as been on the receiving end of way too many assassins, and observed them in their natural habitat (wherever there are 5 champions to oneshot at once) and as someone who saw the recent reworks to other classes I have on or two thoughts.

  1. Assassins have hurt way too much for way too long. -The ability to kill 4 champions in the space of 0.3 seconds (fuck you katarina) has been long abused and I've seen a lot of assassins banned very often as a result, and just dominate the field when not. -Assassins have been this way throughout season six, (at least) and have only gotten worse with the addition of such specialized items as Duskblade and Edge of Night (this one especially counters what little cc many players MIGHT have been able to land on rampaging assassins).

  2. Assassins in their current form have no counterplay and ruin the game. -When all the assassins that see any play (khazix, katarina, yi, rengar, kennen) are impossible to cc and just leap on you and you're instantly dead, that's not counterable, its just frustrating and not fun in the slightest. (I'm looking at you especially my poor adc brethren.) -More specifically, the invisibility mechanic is far too strong in its current incarnation, it forces players to make an impossible choice between using their trinket to place wards to let them see 80% of the incoming enemy team, or a scanning ward that they have to spam and pray that it manages to catch the enemy assassin as it leaps on them and rips their throat open in a spray of blood. Because come on, lets all be honest, how long do pink, now control, wards last? Which of course won't even matter for much longer because with the anticipated changes to invisibility, wards won't even do that much. Sorry pro warders.

I suppose this is just a venting therapy, since I have no doubt that there will be absolutely no nerfs made to any assassins. I just hate playing games where the moment I see a single assassin on the enemy I ask myself again why I'm not allowed to surrender at 10 minutes. Just let me know what you all think.

And I know I didn't have some things in here (I don't have the strength to get started on Yasuo) but go ahead and add what I didn't get to.

3 Comments

Talinis1 votes

I don't understand what you are going on about. If you are a squishy APC and/or ADC and you get caught alone or out of position then don't cry when you get blown up by assassin. Assassins counter those classes, meanwhile bruisers take a dump on assassins. Assassins as a whole now have more counter play than most champions in league; much more counter play than most ADCS for sure, as their main counter play is kill them or they just right click you to death. As an example, you can gap open or use displacement (knock up, knock back) on fizz's Q, you can kite Fizz's W, you can step-side or gap open fizz E, you can gap open, zhonya, banshee fizz shark. You can get enough MR that his combo won't kill you and then he has to wait 3 seconds for any cds in relative melee range. You can poke him from long range. Meanwhile I had a two item ulted vayne literally tumble and do one 700 damage auto when I had 200 armor.

There is a reason basically no assassin was seen in worlds, which is PARTICULARLY telling when Fizz does well against syndra, there were several big fizz players and none of them ever picked Fizz into Syndra as popular as she was. Meanwhile you get ADCS in multiple lanes at times. You and other ADCS can complain but you don't have a leg to stand on after this rework.

zaire901 votes

I suppose this is just a venting therapy, since I have no doubt that there will be absolutely no nerfs made to any assassins.

Well you should be happy because most of them have only gotten nerfs

Astôlfo1 votes

lmao wtf is this joke thread Almost every single assassin got gutted to complete trash Stop smoking. Learn to play and quit crying.

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