Are Assassins Doing Their Job Too Well?

Chaotic Reks··3 votes·586 views

as·sas·sin əˈsasn/ noun a murderer of an important person in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons.

Notice how it says AN important person, not the whole damn team. Most assassins in league are capable of fulfilling their role but doing it too well. An assassin is a person who is designed to take out ANOTHER person. This means that someone has to go 100-0 against one person to get the job done and than slip out before they get cc'd into the ground (or air with this meta). Instead, MasterYi Katarina Akali Zed Rengar can 100-0 your whole team within seconds. Sure they can be countered with cc, but so can every other champ. I have no problem with mobililty on assassins; I have a problem with assassins that can not only nuke their primary target, but can take the whole team down with them cough cough akali, kat. I think that assassins shouldn't have AoE abilities if they're meant to take down a single target. Anyway, just another complaint forum so downvote if you wish.

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Der Lindwurm4 votes

Assassins work too well when the other team doesn't watch what's going on, doesn't react, doesn't work together, and refuses to modify their tactics and adopt a strategy in response to the characters/builds they're up against.

Things they'd get punished just as hard for by mages, ADCs, and bruisers.

SmokingPuffin3 votes

The reset assassins are super pubstompy. Reset on kill champs are probably undesirable design for this reason.

Clearly, not all assassins are meant to be kill one and get out champions though, and the class doesn't feel broken right now.

Chaotic Reks2 votes

Just found a quote on the wiki:

"An assassin is an agile champion that specializes in killing or disabling high value targets. Focused on infiltration, deception, and mobility, assassins are opportunistic hunters who find favorable moments within a fight before jumping into the fray. Regardless of the size of the enemy team, assassins specialize in positioning and artful killing. They strike when the time is right – no sooner, no later."

Long Dong Wukong2 votes

Fizz Zed are the only Assassins that are actually good at assassinating.

The other ones are either very particular about timing Katarina Akali or have a hard time because they're junglers Khazix Rengar or are just kind of "okay" TalonLeblanc or not really true Assassins but play like them MonkeyKing MasterYi Yasuo etc

TheCowSaysMoo2 votes

yeah look at the champions that are truly designed as assasins talon zed and fizz and you will see the problem which is that with talon well rito hates him so when he started to look like he could be someone who could silence and actually kill their mage rito said NOPE and gutted him so hes pretty much gone and the aoe assasins wukong and yasuo are generally only good with comps that can provide them with backup where as yi kat and akali the reseters require other damage threats or a fed adc so that when you burn all cc on them and fry them the enemy adc gets to just kill your whole team while your doing that My conclusion: no assasins are doing their job just fine they have specific weaknesses and strengths the only possible problem i see is that they should not be able to 1v1 bruisers which for the most part they cant which is good

Joe Dredd1 votes

tank taNGk noun 1. a large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas. a receptacle with transparent sides in which to keep fish; an aquarium. synonyms: aquarium, bowl "a tank full of fish" 2. a heavy armored fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track.

I'm pretty sure Riot uses different definitions.

TheRatsInTheWall1 votes

To be fair, "tank" has been used to describe an incredibly durable member of the party in table-top gaming and MMOs for many years now.

DJ Siamak1 votes

Assassins are probably gonna need nerfs when supports get the nerfs they've needed for awhile.

Kuroi861 votes

Outside of Katarina, the five champs you listed are only going to penta your team if you are silly enough to think that a "team fight" means jumping on them one after another. In truth, a team fight means you all engage at once, you don't wait for one to go in, then follow after they are half dead, you charge in and fight along side them. This seems to be a constant problem in this game. For a while, people were using the "team fight" excuse to say Vayne was op. In truth the videos they were posting had teams going in on Vayne one at a time instead of actually fighting as a team.

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