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As someone who like to 100-0 people, i've made a list of viable assasins.

KronosFromDotA··46 votes·4,210 views

I made this list because i really like to build full AD/AP on every champion, and i find interesting how some non assassin's champions can be good at assassinate.

**God Tier - Can 100-0 with little advantage, one kill can start the snowball. **

JarvanIV Probably the best assassin, can one shot one or more people while giving hard cc

Fizz Stills depends on ult early on, but has insane mobility and invulnerability

LeeSin insane mobility and more tankier than he should be even when full AD, can kill squishies and escape with ease

Talon God of roam, sustain in lane and the best lvl 2 trader, can fall of late game because he is squishy as is should be

MonkeyKing After J4 he is the best, AD scaling and a passives that helps survive, very good in teamfights comps

Pantheon Strong roam and the easiest to play, still fall off really hard because his abilities requires close range and a large cast time.

Zed The more healthy assasin IMO, can jump the enemie team, kill his target and then jump out, still requires decision making and even when mega feed cannot kill 2 people easily, his kit is made to kill one at a once, still needs to be more squishier to be healthier

Chogath Cannot assasinate as good as others on this tier but has a tank trait, deal true damage based on his own HP, so, defense = ofense, you get much more gold eficience from a item just because of that, so he snowball can roll even harder, and only gets stronger later on.

Still good assasins - Need items/more kills/setup to 100-0 people

Vi Can take targets from a total BS ultimate, really tanky even when full AD and has a auto reset so item 3078 work like a charm, falls late game.

Riven The girl with 1000 combos can be a good deleter, requires fingers and fast decision making, still not so good on tf and really fragile, slows make her lose potential, don't fall off to hard.

Katarina Looks weird, like a close range AoE mage with mobility, can be shut on the laning phase pretty easily but still do the job later on.

Khazix God tier damage, but still relies on the target being isolated, falls off late game because the team tends to be more closer.

Rengar Need to kill all the enemy team to achieve his true form, but from this point he is just a delete machine.

Twitch Late game hypercarry that can burst an entire team from a massive range, but has a shit early and is heavy item dependant.

Quinn Roam like a boss, still needs to take one target at a time and gets destroyed in teamfights, squishie as is supossed to be.

Ahri Take a lot of mana, a lot of gold advantage and a lot of the enemy misplay to make Ahri assasinate someone, but when the breaking point is reached can be really annoiyng to shut her down.

Gragas Need to be very well played, but in the right people hands assasinate while outplaying, a thing of beauty, still needs gold advantage tho.

Amumu Vulnerable early on but is a good CC machine, can nuke an entire team with the right setup.

Malphite Needs two items to reach assasinate point, but stills depends on his high cd ult.

Malzahar Easy to play and depends on close range to kill, his ult cc himself but the targer is mostly dead, has a passive that punish all in champs, gets pretty useless against item 3140

Lux Can assassinate within long ranges from a little to no advantage, really viable, still skillshot reliant and very, very squishy.

Jayce Versatile in builds and gameplay, has well round ranges and base stats, has no way to go back after going in and can fall late if with lethality build

Sion Need massive setup to work, and can be outplayed quite easily, deals massive damage and CC tho

TwistedFate Can be deadly in AA range, needs at least two items, really vulnerable and useless early on

Nautilus Can be very annoying, strong early and can snowball from there, slow rotations and high cds caps his potential. Get outclassed by Amumu

Syndra Skillshot reliant and mechanical intensive, some people on the boards cry 'muh only press R' if a syndra kill you only in R is beacuse she has a massive advantage or a really good ball setup, just avoid that.

Diana Shit early on but still is tankier than the others assasins and can outduel most of then.

Garen Can be a murder machine but with no heavy cc he still depends on enemies misplay.

Poppy Really nice kit to prevent the target from running away, with a good MS boost and a combo that fits on the stun time she only need a first item advantage to start one comboing people.

Kassadin Weak early on but reaches god tier damage and mobility when hits lvl 16

Sona Weak and mana hungry early, but can do a massive burst with the right ap scaling build (see Teemo)

Annie Need Flash or enemies misplays to grow in game, but still a good teamfighter.

Nocturne Rely on a high cd ult, but can offer little to no counterplay when ahead.

Ezreal Good at all stages, insane synergy with item 3100 and hard to kill due to his range, still skillshot reliant and his ult requires setup.

Lissandra No counterplay when ahead, just come and burst, low ap ratios and high cd ulti make her late game not so good.

Teemo Relies on items with AP scaling to deal signifcant damage(item 3146 item 3285item 3100)but can be very annoying.

Shaco Can be AP or AD, needs advantage and get it pretty easily with invades and early ganks, still a splitpush machine and the right choice to who like mind games.

Veigar Needs stacks, buts offer a whooping wall of stun, very usefull and a moster late game.

Meh assasins - Don't do the job properly/do it in a different way

Ekko To reach the poin to kill with the 3th hit is very hard, need setup, still hard to kill but more a fighter than an assassin.

Renekton Need to be ahead and fall off if don't take a early advantage, to trully assassinate people he need a on hit build (item 3074 item 3087 item 3153 item 3078) besides that, a full AD renekton takes to long to kill and fall off reeeeally hard.

Leblanc Only on the list because she is listed as a assasin, but i didn't find a way to assassinate people with her.

XinZhao Waaaay more a fighter, don't assasinate with any build a tried, on hit, criticals, full AD...

Elise Need massive advantage to 100-0, useless in teamfights, gets outclassed by ad assasins jg

Akali More a fighter than a assassin, go too deep without having something to jump out, gets outclassed by Camille IMO

Graves Nerfed to the ground, still a good jg but is more of a draintank with high damage than anything else.

MasterYi Meele ADC hypercarry.

Nidalee Straight up garbage, only brightside is the mobility, cannot clear jg properly, if don't snowball early she fall even on the midgame, and offers no utility.

Evelynn Same as Nidalee , gets outclassed by Elise

Udyr When full ad Udyr is so much squish, and stills take time to kill, even when ahead he is mana hungry and has no real gapcloser and only a auto range stun, gets ouclassed by Garen

So, give your opinion and what should i change :)

132 Comments

Umbra Z40 votes

When the potentially tankiest tank in the game is also a top tier assassin, you know riot screwed up

KronosFromDotA10 votes

And when one of the best assassin is a piece of mage with delayed damage Leblanc

Tails90163 votes

I looked up his ap scalings... I want to die:

Q:75% W:20% E:30%, 15% (additional waves R:80%,40% (secondary targets)

ZeroAgainst4 votes

should go look at old sions ap ratios ;)

Wukong Airlines8 votes

MonkeyKing "..and a passives that helps survive" <=== wrong section, correction: Memes and Games.

RavenMagus6 votes

and of course almost all of the "god tier" assassins are AD champs

KronosFromDotA3 votes

I don't see a reason to play an ap champ over an ad, period

BobaFlautist2 votes

Without going into champion kits, ap can usually get more max burst (because the values scale up so high at full build), get more added ratios with item 3100 and item 3146, and have item 3157 to sit and wait for CDs while the rest of your team engages 4v4.

Not saying these outweigh the advantages of ad, but they're there.

KronosFromDotA16 votes

You're right, but the items don't give ap anymore, and item 3089 is shit, take too much slots and is too expensive I've rofl when riot said that item 3147 was a 'bad build tree' with item 1038 and item 3134 Meanwhile item 3089...

And with ap items you have 3 mandatory items if you want to do damage item 3089 item 3135 item 3020 Not giving much choises, and to people who say item 3165 is overloaded, i say that every ap item have to be like it, is not that morello is op, is the rest of the ap itemization that is garbage.

PePsiLemoNN3 votes

item 3089 take too much slots and is too expensive

Ikr , it should take like 1/2 slots or 1/3

PB4UAME2 votes

I think they meant it takes 3 item slots to hold the components and because its so overpriced, you're going to want to be sitting on all three (so as to not be sitting on like 2k+ gold you can't spend) which creates quite a few issues with actually building the damn thing-- as opposed to commenting on the most slot efficient AP item's slot efficiency. . . in a negative fashion.

HaIlMonitor1 votes

Most of these are fighters and tanks lol

RavenMagus1 votes

The only real difference between a "diver" and an "assassin" is that divers do the same job faster and better while being tankier.

HaIlMonitor1 votes

That is just sad that fighters do the Assassin job better. No one cares about J4 blowing them up and living through a team fight, but a Rengar doing the same and dying right after is a big NONO lol.

ChargeItDownMid5 votes

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Hyperiön1 votes

{quoted}

Yeah, definition of assassins in league is a bit weird. Assassins cover the champions who can 100-0 and also has good escape afterwards. As a result, divers and immobile melee champions tend to have more potential power alotted to 100-0 damage because they do not have as much power budgetted to mobility.

A few others that can really snowball are full ap naut (his rotation is a little slow but he keeps them hard cc'd during most of it), tiger stance udyr (can get 2 q pros off extremely fast), kled has a ton of damage in one rotation, and nocturne

Well look at J4 and Wukong. They both have incredible base damage and scaling on their ult to let them be viable. J4 QER combo will 1 shot any squishy if he builds some damage. Same with wukong, except his ult offers more utility imo.

KronosFromDotA1 votes

J4 has too much damage, it's unfair, i've killed people with a Q and a auto, no other champion has such potencial. Wukong work much more like an assasin, come with stealth and deliver his blow, and i agree with you, Wu ult offers way more utility.

Hyperiön3 votes

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J4 has too much damage, it's unfair, i've killed people with a Q and a auto, no other champion has such potencial. Wukong work much more like an assasin, come with stealth and deliver his blow, and i agree with you, Wu ult offers way more utility.

Indeed. Lethality is great and all. But it might have been a little overworked on some of the items (item 3147) Tanks are going lethality, ADCs are going lethality (again). It is very good, but on the flip side, if J4 goes lethality. He can get nuked easily.

So you pretty much just play him like an assassin.

KronosFromDotA2 votes

I play every champ like an assassin, that's the point of the post [slayer-jinx-catface]

Hyperiön1 votes

{quoted}

I play every champ like an assassin, that's the point of the post [slayer-jinx-catface]

Best way to play the game i you pull it off.

Playing Karthus like an assassins is a lot more fun than you would think.

Ive been Queing with a friend lately. And I will normally go someone who an match his mobility (rengar main)

So literally we invest so much money into wards, light up the enemy junglers jungle, and just kill them every time they come for a buff. Karthus slow, on top of rylais. And then with a rengar :)

SSJTribe4 votes

Karthus slow, on top of rylais.

Just so you know, slows don't stack. It just applies the stronger one.

Dominick Destine5 votes

I've resisted for several years but.... I have to admit, Evelynn is in a very bad spot and could use some buffs. As you say, she is heavily outclassed right now.

She is next up for a rework so that gives me hope.

KoKoboto4 votes

Skillshot reliant and mechanical intensive, some people on the boards cry 'muh only press R' if a syndra kill you only in R is beacuse she has a massive advantage or a really good ball setup, just avoid that.

ball setup? spam Q anywhere xd

KronosFromDotA12 votes

To maintain a high ball number you have to spend a fuckton of mana, i mean, is still not healthy to get one shoted, but you could avoid that.

KoKoboto3 votes

No you don't. Ever since they buffed Syndra orb duration you don't gotta worry about it. Also you don't need to spam it walking out of base lmfao just when you know a fight will start soon. Also Syndra has average mana cost compared to other mages that spam abilities like her.

KronosFromDotA7 votes

I've played alot of Syndra and i can say the only situaions that i just spammed Q to kill someone with R is when i'm just overfeed and don't mind wasting my mana and ult, yeah, it's cool to kill with a R but don't justify wasting all her kit potential just to kill the adc.

KoKoboto3 votes

I play a lot of Syndra as well and even if you're not super fed but doing decent all you need is one skill shot into R. You're not wasting potential because you just E after R for a huge stun.

Sqkerg6 votes

As a Syndra Main, if they have literally any mr, this isn't going to work.

KoKoboto2 votes

As a pseudo-Syndra main I'm ulting squishies

DarkSunSovereign3 votes

Squishies still can get MR.item 3102 item 3155 item 3139

KoKoboto1 votes

less damage if they do that i got another rotation of spells

Sqkerg1 votes

Not much, especially when the items give offense and defense.

KoKoboto1 votes

yes much cuz not crit, if assassins not lethality but maw is stupid yes, not enough to tank another rotation

Sqkerg1 votes

I'm more talking laneing, mages can build banshees and not miss out on much, same for assassins and maw

KoKoboto1 votes

oh yeaaaah baby

Catastrop4 votes

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Leblanc Only on the list because she is listed as a assasin, but i didn&#039;t find a way to assassinate people with her.

Gross Sobbing of LB mains everywhere

I also find the lack of Lissandra on this list disturbing. Literally no counterplay when she can oneshot, it's so fun.

PopcornBunni2 votes

How does Poppy fit as an assassin? I've 0-deathed squishies without needing to be crazy ahead.

Q scales with 80% bonus AD and 8% of enemy max health (TWICE) W prevents escapes and stops other people trying to dive in to the isolated target, and its passive gives her huge staying power combined with lifesteal E scales with 50% bonus AD (TWICE) and has 2 seconds of stun at max rank Passive adds a hard engage shield and adds reach to proc Dusblade while still counting as a melee attack

Poppy item 3147 item 3117 item 3812 item 3071 item 3074 item 3742

The problem of course is it severely hampers Poppy's tanking to build a pure assassin path, but I've had success with a partial lethality build that still chunks huge amounts of damage and can 100-0 if you're willing to use up all your resources.

Poppy item 3147 item 3009 item 3812 item 3742 item 3512 item 3110

In both cases runes are full Lethality reds and quints, with flat armor and magic resist.

Jeanne fan club2 votes

That is probably the best and most objective description of Ahri I have ever read.

Zero Skill Tank2 votes

I don't think that Nautilus Assassinautilus gets 'outclassed' by Amumu. AP Naut can reasonably lane against many midlane champions (you know, in gold and plat, I heard about one D2 AP naut onetrick but that's it), something Amumu can't really do.

Fairyfleur2 votes

"Assassins" are designed to get in, kill a priority target, and get out. Many of these champions can kill a squishy but have no means of escaping once they're in.

Fairyfleur1 votes

Then that's a diver, not an assassin.

Joes2 votes

A example is gragas, he can 100-0 without going in.

Fairyfleur1 votes

So he can 100 to 0 without hitting a belly slam or w?

LXII1 votes

Sending the target 6,000 feet backwards into you and "going in" are 2 different things my friend.

Fairyfleur1 votes

Then we must have different definitions of "going in". Whenever I think of that phrase I think "you're going to engage on a target".

Joes1 votes

Throw a q at urself, ult them into said q. Belly slam or w and that can one shot

nm10101 votes

Leblanc with double item 3145 proc E RE Q with autos mixed in can't 100-0 if they took mr blues, feelsbadman.

KronosFromDotA4 votes

She can kill people, but it take so long, bassicaly your target can turn around and kill you before half of your combo... The last time i played her was against a Diana and a Twitch

Leblanc I hit my E "oh boy cannot wait to my passive procs..." Diana QRR and i died

Leblanc I hit my E "oh boy cannot wait to my passive procs..." Twitch 3 autos then i died

I just gave up on her.

Lauchmelder2 votes

Then again she totally needed Ryze's waveclear. Old LB was way better.

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