What if ADCs were given the assassin treatment?

TeemoXNidalee··69 votes·3,531 views

Vayne After tumbling, has to wait for 2 seconds to attack again MissFortune Ult has a initial 2 second channel before going off Jhin 4th hit becomes a 1.5s channel that can be interrupted Jinx Disables basic attacks for 1.5 seconds after switching instances

etc

124 Comments

GULAG 4 U22 votes

How does tihs fix their problems? (hint: it doesn't. It nerfs them into the ground)

Irelia Bot4 votes

Sounds balanced to me.

GULAG 4 U4 votes

It isn't, they are DPSers, if you really want to gate their damage, reduce them by raw numbers, doing this only makes them shitty and clunky for nothing.

Irelia Bot6 votes

With riots new display of "balance" according to the assassin update yes that does sound balanced.

GULAG 4 U4 votes

Except marksmen aren't assassins.

SlntReaper8 votes

Vayne item 3031 item 3087 item 3147 item 3046 item 3078 you called?

Ryuyah10 votes

Quinn item 3147 item 3814 item 3142 item 3009 item 3812 item 3071 hi

DKM Bismarck1 votes

Jhin item 3147 item 3142 item 3031 item 3094 item 3036 item 3009 hey there

Dextix LT2 votes

Yea, they only do as much damage as them, also in sustained form, also from range. But let's ignore all of those.

JQKAndrei3 votes

Also after 30 minutes of farming

Dextix LT2 votes

So, the same as assasins? Who also need farm?

JQKAndrei4 votes

mid laners scale with levels more than with items. Adcs scale exclusively with items.

Champion Skin1 votes

ADCs don't exclusively scale with items.... They most certainly scale with levels as well like Jhin getting his ult (and the only way he gains higher attack speed is with levels) And Vayne with getting her Q up to rank 5 for that 70% increase damage on the next AA (up to 175% increase with IE crit)

And of course utility carries getting their ultimate like... Ashe and Sivir

JQKAndrei1 votes

It's obvious that lvl 6 is a powerspike for almost every champion....duh, that's not enough to say

And Adcs scale Exclusively with items. There's no world or reality in which a lvl 6 vayne with doran's blade can be useful in a fight compared to Fiora, Zed, Syndra, Elise.

Those champions scale with levels because their abilities gain a flat amout of damage every time they put a point in their ability.

Vayne is the worst example you could pull out since her Q scales with %AD and if she doesn't back to buy that AD, the scaling is crap.

GayFluffyUnicorn1 votes

This might have been true 3 seasons ago but not anymore. The overall increase in dmg, alteration of ADC kits pretty much changed that.

Akali is SO HOT38 votes

You mean like the Assassin Update?

GULAG 4 U12 votes

It fixed kha'zix's problems.

Fixed talons (where he just onshots you with 0 counterplay)

Fixed Lebullshit's.

Nerfed zed into the ground.

Nerfed kali into the ground.

I'm pretty sure it fixed tankko.

Idk for fizz.

Rengar's hard to tell.

Shaco is shit.

50/100

Ariel the Cruel11 votes

50/50

Best score yet! GJ Rito, you're improving. XD

50000000000000002 votes

So are you saying that nerfing champs into the ground is fine or bad?

Saianna2 votes

Fixed talons (where he just onshots you with 0 counterplay)

Just saw Talon 1shot MF. 100 to 0. in Less than 2 seconds. He was ahead, but not by huge margin.

Nerfed zed into the ground.

He can still kill 2-3 ADCs in 1 go easily & fast. Experience from yesterdays match.

I'm pretty sure it fixed tankko.

Nope.

Fixed Lebullshit's.

She has less burtst, but her spells hit alot harder now. So.. Good luck living after 2 seconds ;P

And Katarina. Just as OP (if not even OPPER) than before.

Shaco is shit

Yep.

Fixed what exactly?

Astôlfo5 votes

Fixed them being good and balanced by making them dogshit.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

"katarina is OP"

Nice joke there pal.

Lebalanced doesn't bursts you under 0.5 seconds with 2 spells like before, they did what was intended.

Which game has 2-3 adcs? And zed can only kill one unless he's 20/0 or fed af.

"just saw talon oneshot mf" Maybe put a clip here or there?

Saianna1 votes

Which game has 2-3 adcs?

ARAMs

"just saw talon oneshot mf"

Ascension

"katarina is OP"

Nice joke there pal.

Every.. EVERY game I see Katarina I know I'll be sad panda.

Her burst is even bigger than she used to have. Today's game. Mee teemo with 1600 hp left (I was HP-beefy). And katarina with 2.. tops 3 AAs worth of life (or 1 blind dart). She killed me in less than a second. My whole 1600 hp bar gone red in a goddamn second. And she survived.... For couple of seconds untill she hit my mushroom.

So.. No matter what you think of katarina.. I believe she was never stronger than now.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

we dont balance the game for arams.

Saianna1 votes

but you do understand that ARAMs are pretty much what happens in lategame SR?

GULAG 4 U1 votes

Do you realize in either cases there will be no 2-3 marksmen in one game?

Saianna1 votes

Do you think I should take seriously somebody who's called

extreme noob leet?

Second thing: I have seen shit like 3 ADCs in 1 game on SR, so yeah.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

First off, if you can't take me seriously because of my name, that's a pathetic excuse. That's all.

I have seen shit like 3 adcs in one game o SR too.

IT'S ONE FUCKING GAME. It doesn't mean shit.

AirKingNeo1 votes

Uh, tank ekko was fixed. It's terrible.

Goatfish1 votes

[deleted]

Saianna1 votes

Leblanc is no longer an assassin. She is now a mage

I'm quite certain I said it myself... But in different thread.. Good to know there are others who think that way about LB ;)

LBB4121 votes

You said that nerfing ADC's into the ground is bad, but think the Assassin update worked great, while simultaneously stating that all the Assassin update did was nerf the assassins into the ground

GULAG 4 U1 votes

I never said the assassin update worked great. I said 50/50- half of them did shit the other didn't.

LBB4121 votes

You said half of them being nerfed into the ground or becoming shit was good, and you were just happy that the other ones werent like they used to.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

I never said I was happy with it, stop putting words in my mouth.

LBB4121 votes

Fixing "lebullshit" and nerfing damn near everyone else and you still say it was 50/50 implies it

GULAG 4 U1 votes

It doesn't.

Supreme Senpai694 votes

The assassin update... nerfed them into the ground? Khazix is pretty OP right now and so is Talon

DKM Bismarck1 votes

Talon's not OP. Go ahead, assassinate Vayne late game, I am waiting to tell me how you died every time you tried, no no not because she got peel, but because she is a better fucking assassin than the assassin champ and she will crit Q you for 1.5k damage then aa you again and you die, there you go, in the time it took old Talon to do 1 full rotation of skills + a tiamat she simply QAA AA's you and you fucking die. It's disgusting, and she isn't the /only/ ADC doing this. I am dying in 3 hits from Jhin, from Jinx, from -insert 4 other ADC's here-. They do more damage than assassins and now assassins got slowed down, they will never actually kill them later unless the ADC messes up SUPER bad, splits alone and the assassin does the snappiest combo of their lives, which is much harder than pressing q and right clicking someone, or unless the ADC gets such little peel in a fight that it's hilarious (doesn't apply to Vayne or Ashe, they just have their very own peel built into their kits honestly.) With the dawn of no-counter-to-adc's-as-assassins-are-too-slow, the ADC role needs another rework yaaaaay!

Only Play Darius2 votes

Riot likely won't change the kit mechanics, but they will do what they need to do to make those assassins hit 50% winrate again. They are going to keep the abilities delayed and unreliable but will make it so that when you do get hit by them you legitimately get one-shot. Whether or not that is any improvement compared to how it was before is unclear though.

TeemoXNidalee5 votes

{quoted}

How does tihs fix their problems? (hint: it doesn't. It nerfs them into the ground)

Exactly like the assassin update

GULAG 4 U4 votes

It doesn't have anything to do with the assassin's update anyways.

zaire902 votes

just like the assassins

Rivuo10 votes

Jinxs q disabling her autos for 1.5 seconds is pretty good tbh

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

I just want her rockets to affect Base AS so she gets less AoE crits mid/late game and her mini-gun to require more than 3 AA's to become the highest passive AS.

And for Varus to get a new passive since Jinx [after the marksman update] is basically a better version of him with an upgraded passive.

TurquoiseYoshi9 votes

That doesn't make any sense, assassins take that 1.5 second wait and then kill you outright, while marksmen need that 1.5 seconds to AA you to do similar damage over a long duration of time. There's a reason why assassins counter marksmen: assassins get the damage off faster. If you leave an ADC unchecked for 5-10 seconds in a crowded teamfight, then yeah, they'll destroy your team. But if Zed decides to hop on them, there's not a damn thing they can do to fight back.

Drakylon4 votes

{quoted}

That doesn't make any sense, assassins take that 1.5 second wait and then kill you outright, while marksmen need that 1.5 seconds to AA you to do similar damage over a long duration of time. There's a reason why assassins counter marksmen: assassins get the damage off faster. If you leave an ADC unchecked for 5-10 seconds in a crowded teamfight, then yeah, they'll destroy your team. But if Zed decides to hop on them, there's not a damn thing they can do to fight back.

The problem now is that some assassins (Akali and Ekko, as examples) kill in separate bursts spaced quite a bit apart from one another without any reliable way of keeping the ADC from acting, which means the ADC gets time between bursts to lifesteal most of what they took, especially late game. The way assassins should've been reworked is more on the lines of LeBlanc and Fizz; prepare for some time (visibly), then dump all of their damage at once.

Kha'Zix is interesting in that while he also kills in several bursts, his are only spaced around 1 second from each other, giving no time for the ADC to lifesteal enough yet still enough time for them and/or their teammates to react after the initial strike.

SpookyNeedle9 votes

Can't tell if you're joking or actually proposing this, and I'm a melee toplane main

Anidan3 votes

I have no idea what being a melee toplane main has to do with detecting whether or not someone is being facetious, but you go get 'em!

Tis a nice day5 votes

He probably means he hates ranged champions.

More from Gameplay

More by TeemoXNidalee