The assassin / carry paradoxon

Kowe The Ewok·Dec 15, 2014·2 votes·827 views

Usually 5 out of 6 bans are assassins, especially: (if played as AD ) sometimes , pre-nerf No offense - but these champions (partwise), truely are overkill and incredibly save considering the damage they deal.

As a result of these bans carry picks are relatively save. Thus many people in this forum are QQ'ing about carries. Yet - if carries were truely as dominent as these people say - we would see more (targeted) carry bans.

So I was wondering - IF assassins where brought down to a point where they were not must-bans anymore, that would not actually mean bans would be open for other champions, but would also be open to be picked (and destroy carries).

So, maybe bringing down assassin's from their throne (I am not talking about making them unviable) would balance the game out to a more varied meta.

9 Comments

ccseancc143Dec 15, 20143 votes

Talon cries in corner

TrentBatNADec 15, 20141 votes

Kassadin *comes and hugs talon, and both start crying

Eve The RipperDec 15, 20142 votes

I thought you were going to talk about how assassins shouldn't be carries as well, but this is ok too.

Duke AnaxDec 15, 20141 votes

They aqlready moved in the right direction by removing some of the CC from assassins and increasing it on supports.

The odd thing is, assassins aren't even as far above anymore as a lot of people think. I vguess it's that, because of the perma ban, people haven't had the chance to notice.

Soraka actually counters a lot of assasin now, even mid.

Kowe The EwokDec 15, 20142 votes

In theory maybe.

Practially silence in general is so horribly bugged an unreliable it's not even fun anymore. I love to play Soraka and Cho and it's just god damn frustrating how everybody and his dog still uses abilitied about a second after they already have the silence indicator above their heads.

Pelican CoveDec 15, 20141 votes

Assassins aren't banned for being OP, they are banned because most people don't think that their team can survive against them and would rather not face a snowballed/fed one.

XtremeyDec 15, 20141 votes

[{quoted}](name=Pelican Cove,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=R82afYsB,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2014-12-15T21:07:13.566+0000) Assassins aren't banned for being OP, they are banned because most people don't think that their team can survive against them and would rather not face a snowballed/fed one.

tldr people ban assassins because they dont trust their teammates.

HayaishiDec 15, 20141 votes

Riot has shifted the meta to explosive, burst gameplay.

Making picks and bursting people down for the sake of interesting LCS big plays which is why tanks are useless, and Assassins are dominant.

RebonackDec 15, 20141 votes

Banning ADCs largely doesn't matter because the vast majority of their damage comes from their item build. They're largely interchangeable save for whatever bells and whistles they might boast. Sure you can ban the (current) strongest one, but there are plenty of others to step in.