Damage is too high because Riot overloaded assassins and now everyone has to be an assassin

94372148·2/25/2020, 2:35:46 AM·1 votes·3,043 views

Assassins and the assassin update are the sole reason for damage being out of this world ridiculous. Since Riot decided to give every assassin multiple dashes, multiple forms of cc, multiple escapes, and just generally overload the everloving shit out of them now everyone is in an arms race to see who can one shot the other the fastest. Since assassins were given the means to literally one shot every class of champion with little to no counterplay (and make no mistake, assassins are the premier class in the game right now just look at any sites tier lists) Riot's "fix" to the issue of assassins is to make everyone an assassin.

It's horrible game design, but blame assassin players. This is what they wanted so this is what they got.

9 Comments

LanceTheJungler2/25/2020, 2:42:22 AM9 votes

Damage is too high because Riot overloaded ADC's and now everyone has to be an assassin

FIFY

Sucction2/25/2020, 7:40:17 AM7 votes

The assassin update ended up making several assassins god awful and presented a million balance issues. Two of the reworks made during it were reverted. That's how bad it was, lmao

Said update has nothing to do with it. It's just general damage creep. There's more damage buffs than anything, and buffs are more common than nerfs. It's a slow, collective thing that happens over time.

The biggest culprit is Runes Reforged, if you want something to blame, but even that isn't the entirety of it on its own.

ZephyrDrake2/25/2020, 5:31:04 AM3 votes

How does riot "overloading" a single class makes every single other class do more damage?

LostInTheDark072/25/2020, 5:31:28 AM3 votes

Remember when all mid laners cried on Boards saying that assassins are so trash and stuff. Well now they run around come out of nowhere thanks to their unlimited amount of dashes/insane mobility/ invisibility and delete you. I play adc and I can say this role is the worst right now thanks to mages who can one shot me, thanks to assassins who, guess what, one shot me and thanks to tanks who can 1 v 1 me easy cause of their insane amount of dmg. Tanks btw. Assassins are pure disgusting they just come close to you and grey screen. They overbuffed their items when it wasn t the case, they gave them toxic kits Qiyana with dashes, invisibility and insane amount of dmg, Fizz with zhonya and his E impossible to catch him while having stupid amount of dmg, Zed who doesn t even need ult to kill you etc. Is not enough that they got stupid amount of dashes and so on that allows them not to only kill you but disengage safely waiting few seconds for their CD and ready to go again, they also have CC, invisibility and so on. Stupid game design. Remember when everything was about outplaying your enemy? Now it's just oh I pressed R or smashed QWE, that s all.

PhearBunny2/25/2020, 1:56:55 PM1 votes

idunno what u mean dawg. Garen or Ornn can 1v20 every assassin in the game, and come out of it at over 50% HP.

boricCentaur12/25/2020, 7:49:26 PM1 votes

Assassins have counter play the problem is you ignore it.

Like name me the assassins with multiple cc that is actually cc and not just a slow or root since it's like two.

Here is what you're trying to say "I want this game to be easy and so I don't have to think"

Like kat one cc and she is basically dead, and her early game isn't great either. Talon can really only kill like one champion in a fight, falls off super hard, his mobility in a fight is pretty low. Kass has a pretty shit early game and also has a hard time with cc.

Please stop ignoring counter play since you want games to be easier.

Also what assassins are actually good right now? Kass is strong and kat I guess maybe but I would say there's much stronger champions in mid lane, zed and talon are ok, and same with fizz. Jg assassins are also just ok, top lane has no assassins, bot has no assassin, support has pyke who is pretty bad right now maybe if leona and naut get nerfed he will be ok. Basically assassins are just ok.

So yeah it's clearly not assassin meta unless you think the game is 100% based around mid lane which it's not.