I never thought I would be so glad to see Assassins returning to the meta.

warpenguin555··74 votes·3,886 views

Im very sick of this "Win Bot, Win Game" meta. Its extremely irritating to go even/win lane or camp mid or top and help them win lane, all to have it not matter 1 bit because your bot lane fed. Games should not be decided because the enemy ADC (or any role for that matter) got ahead and now nullifies the efforts of the 3 players on the team. When assassins come back maybe losing bot wont be an instant loss.

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Rivuo41 votes

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Im very sick of this "Win Bot, Win Game" meta.

I have plenty of games where i go 5-0 as caitlyn in the first 10 minutes and cannot carry.

I have plenty of games where i go 0-5 and still do the most damage

I have plenty of games where the enemy bot lane is 0-7 but their jungler is too good

I dont have the win bot win game issue

Apocyliptic6 votes

Win bot win game is pretty prevalent in the lower elos. I remember being in silver and the amount of pure rage I got over a losing bot lane (which were about 50-80% of my losses) was hard to control.

nice table12 votes

silver elo, if you give a caitlyn 5 kills in medium - high elo you will get fucked harder than daisy unless you have something like malphite.

Photos of Ghosts3 votes

Are you referring to Ivern's ult and how squishy she is, or something horrendous that you shouldn't be referring to?

warpenguin5552 votes

ew... i hope its not the second thing

TequilaZombie1 votes

I wanna know what is the second thing.

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don't think riot would be fine with it being mentioned here.

TequilaZombie2 votes

Seven hells, I'm curious as fuck now man. At least post something that allows me to google it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rir03PwsrU4 i guess a youtube link would please riot, not that ive already been banned 4 times from the forums anyways.

TequilaZombie1 votes

Holy shit. Well, I doubt you'd get banned from that, but I wouldn't be surprized if Riot deleted it.

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neh posting youtube links is fine, if i told you to search for daisy's destruction i woulda probably gotten banned tho.

Photos of Ghosts1 votes

Gonna answer the safe way: look up news of an Australian man being arrested in the Philippines. Well, one of his "productions" had once escaped the depths of the dark web and was actually searchable on the main search engines... didn't last long fortunately.

Rivuo2 votes

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silver elo, if you give a caitlyn 5 kills in medium - high elo you will get fucked harder than daisy unless you have something like malphite.

Im in plat 2.

S H A Y C 02 votes

Im in plat 2.

#rekt

nice table1 votes

why are you posting from a smurf, and secondly according to the win ratio and stats of the account you are posting from i doubt the smurfing part.

Rivuo1 votes

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why are you posting from a smurf, and secondly according to the win ratio and stats of the account you are posting from i doubt the smurfing part.

Who said it is a smurf :X.......... Could be an old old account.. That has no recent games

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yea no you're full of shit

Rivuo1 votes

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yea no you're full of shit

If im full of shit why dont you prove me wrong..?

The last game on this account is... when..? Check..

Also i have nothing to prove to you i dont really give a shit. You brong up rank not me

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you do realize we can see the ranks of previous seasons? and all the MMR the account has been at on this season? i mean you can lie all you want but we can all see the truth staring us in the face.

Rivuo1 votes

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you do realize we can see the ranks of previous seasons? and all the MMR the account has been at on this season? i mean you can lie all you want but we can all see the truth staring us in the face.

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/71323011

Like i said. I have nothing to prove to you.

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"im not posting from a smurf, just havent played for a while" proceeds to claim its a smurf and posts a random accounts lolking, k buddy.

Rivuo1 votes

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"im not posting from a smurf, just havent played for a while" proceeds to claim its a smurf and posts a random accounts lolking, k buddy.

Err....

The last game on this account is.

Was my correct quote. Not ''just havent played for a while''

Why dont you learn some english.

Every point you have made has been proven wrong.

I'll say it explicitly.

You suck. Im plat 3. ??? There

nice table1 votes

the "why don't you learn some english" is kind of hilarious coming from a american that's english is worse than a lot of peoples who have it as a second language. also if you weren't the massive cuck that you are you would have already posted from the account you are claiming but then again "i hef nuffin to prove pls guise".

Rivuo1 votes

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the "why don't you learn some english" is kind of hilarious coming from a american that's english is worse than a lot of peoples who have it as a second language. also if you weren't the massive cuck that you are you would have already posted from the account you are claiming but then again "i hef nuffin to prove pls guise".

i said ive gone 0-5 and 5-0 in games as caitlyn and cannot carry sometimes.

You replied with ''you're silver, in medium to high elo 5 kills on caitlyn is insta win''

I replied with ''Im plat ''.

You replied with ''LIAR ARE YOU POSTING ON SMURF BADADAFOAJFO''

You can add me on my main account (Defended) if you want and i'll talk to you there.

This argument ends here.

Goodluck

swindlermerchant2 votes

Most of the time I lose games its because my probably premade bot lane fed hard.

junglerboy162 votes

The feeling you get when two premades both bicker for bot lane, lock in as support+ADC, and you're stuck covering top/mid/jungle as they squabble for CS and kills.

Pray it never happens to you, it makes you want to be dead.

Nami in Bush1 votes

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I have plenty of games where i go 5-0 as caitlyn in the first 10 minutes and cannot carry.

I have plenty of games where i go 0-5 and still do the most damage

I have plenty of games where the enemy bot lane is 0-7 but their jungler is too good

I dont have the win bot win game issue

I was playing Thresh and spoon-fed my Jhin 14-0, we lost because my top fed Olaf 14-0.

Rivuo1 votes

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I was playing Thresh and spoon-fed my Jhin 14-0, we lost because my top fed Olaf 14-0.

Yep. Thresh is known for being a peeler. You cant peel an olaf 2 shotting ur adc

Fondling Gems1 votes

Actually thresh is the best support for that, you lantern him away. Thresh can generally keep jhin alive long enough for Olaf ult to wear off, then it is GG olaf.

Rivuo1 votes

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Actually thresh is the best support for that, you lantern him away. Thresh can generally keep jhin alive long enough for Olaf ult to wear off, then it is GG olaf.

yeah thats true

Sightless6621 votes

When assassins were good, a very common way of winning was to roam bot and use it to get as snowballed as possible. You'd have the asssassin creating a snowballed adc. I can't imagine that plan will change nowadys.

Just saying, be careful what you wish for.

InTheory11 votes

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Death by Glamour3 votes

Yeh this sounds about right

Penns9 votes

-If- assassins come back :s

warpenguin5552 votes

If they don't i'm going to be forced to main ADC and Support just to make sure my bot lane doesn't feed. I go even in lane a good chunk of my games and would rather go down there to make sure the snowball doesnt happen. Even if it means my side wont win bot lane, I see it as worth as long as the enemy team wont win it either.

RocketRelm2 votes

To be fair, you could alternatively main jungle and camp the sh*t out of bot every game.

RogueWill6 votes

You need one carry ahead, not necessary bot, I have won games by spoon feeding top or mid if they have constant DPS and/or good scaling.

Sherogarth4 votes

Can we get a support meta for once? Thanks.

BakedLotion2 votes

Assassins are getting worse. Their kill time is getting increased to approx 3 seconds. Thats more time for the adc to lifesteal half their hp in one auto. And their support to save them.

Astôlfo3 votes

Where do you see 3 seconds?

BakedLotion2 votes

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Where do you see 3 seconds?

Riot said it in one of their first posts about the assassin rework

Astôlfo2 votes

Well okay, assassins are worthless trash.

LoLKiru1 votes

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Well okay, assassins are worthless trash.

I've not seen this post, what I HAVE seen; is them saying that TTK's won't be increasing much. To directly quote a red "Even 0.5 seconds means alot in these situations"

Astôlfo4 votes

Yeah. Even 0.5 seconds extra is too much in my opinion. The main counterplay to assassins is to not let them solo-hunt you down in the first place. The fact they did that successfully while you were alone or low health or basically alone (not enough sufficient teammates/peel/etc) means that was a good decision/play on their part. And assassins are meant to be essentially the gods of surprise solo-killing. Yes, a fighter would win against an assassin in an extended trade because fighters revel in dueling whereas assassins revel in massive momentary burst. But assassins should be able to kill just about any non-tanky target near instantly if they find them alone/relatively alone or low health.

Sightless665 votes

The problem with the low burst times is that it means they don't have to find you alone or with low peel. If they have a 0.25 second burst time, they are giving their enemies an unreasinably low period to stop them from taking someone out. Peel should be a weakness for assassins and something they have to respond to, not something they primarily ignore.

Solo hunting and finding enemies who aren't covered by allies should be the method of success, as well as using high mobility to avoid incoming threats and damage. Lengthening kill times preserves that goal perfectly. They still have a guaranteed kill if you are actually alone, but need to actually deal with enemy responses if you aren't.

Don't forget that we know they are getting new mechanics and increased potential damage to make up for lower reliability.

NineTailedMystic2 votes

Assassins are the mechanical outplay class, so why should they not be subject to mechanical outplay themselves? Game Knowledge (Map Awareness, Warding, CD Knowledge, etc) should not be the counter to the 'most mechanics based class'.

Sightless667 votes

They talked about adding 0.5 seconds (specifically referred to as "a lot") to assassins with a 0.5 to 1 second burst time right now. I can't find anywhere was they said 3 seconds was a target.

notmarked1 votes

who said assassins were coming back into meta?

chubs12246 votes

usually after class reworks the reworked champs define the meta. Look at immobile mages meta that dominated mid season or the juggernaut meta of last year.

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