AD Assassins are bad right now? Really?

AtheosisX·12/19/2015, 7:56:32 PM·3 votes·519 views

Zed and Talon are both in the top 10 of the overall performers in mid lane on champion.gg, and Riot is still talking about buffing AD assassins by giving them an OP item? Buff the bad AD assassins (like Kha'Zix), don't give the whole class an abusable item. Riot seems to be getting more and more clueless by the day.

http://champion.gg/statistics/#?sortBy=general.overallPosition&order=ascend&roleSort=Middle

9 Comments

Indominus Blade12/19/2015, 7:59:17 PM1 votes

That AD assassin item is absolute garbage, I won't be using it.

Diamond+ elo Assassin main for 3 years.

RickDodger12/19/2015, 8:09:24 PM1 votes

Considering you can get high armor penetration from 2 items along with runes and masteries ... but you'd only be able to get 30% armor shred from item 3071 unlike Jayce and MonkeyKing with built in shred on top of that.

forist12/19/2015, 8:29:51 PM1 votes

Yeah talon's 3% play rate is so indicative of strength. When you nerf a classes's core items the logical way to help them is to introduce a new one instead of buffing the champions.

Cloak an Dagger12/19/2015, 9:26:22 PM1 votes

How many times are you plebs going to whine incessantly to Riot about Talon and Zed until you are satisfied? Until they are literally unplayable? Would that satisfy your salt? They have already crippled their ability to do their jobs in the last several patches.

There is a reason they are giving them a new item. It's to help them out. This in itself is sad. You know something is wrong when an archetype is so weak that it needs to rely on a fucking item to help them fulfill their function. Let me reiterate. AN ASSASSIN HAS TO PAY 3000+ GOLD TO ASSASSINATE A SQUISHY. They have dished them multiple core item nerfs and nerfs to their scaling and utility both directly and indirectly. How about we allow assassins to assassinate fragile hard to get to champions like they should be able to do?

TL;DR FoH