this assassin meta is really annoying and tanks need help

Mr map awareness·3/2/2019, 12:56:08 AM·3 votes·1,093 views

Ok i know this is an unpopular opinion on the boards, but please hear me out. This assassin meta we are having is kind of out of hand and the only real counter play being assassins is kind of annoying. having assassins like kat zed and fizz that blink around at the speed of light counter champions like malphite and garen is a little weird, given that what should be the counter play to assassins is hard cc.

I think an ideal solution to this would be giving more non skill shot cc to tanks, but cutting their health, armor and mr in half and adding 50% more damage to their kits that way tanks would be more easily shredded by marksmen like vayne and jinx, but could also lock down and 1v1 enemy carries easier. For example, if say blitzcranks q was point and click, then katarina couldnt dodge it so easily and would actually have to think about how she moves. Not only that but his r could also root everyone because tanks should have at least 2 hard ccs in their kit.

As for assassins, they should just have their damage and health cut in half cause champs like kat yas zed fizz and leblanc are too bananas in high and low elo alike.

The feedback ive heard is pretty 50/50 on this, but i think we should try and get this to riot to see what they think.

7 Comments

BigChinLesbian3/2/2019, 1:40:10 AM4 votes

Please no, tanks need to be tanks. The game needs front line, and taking that out of the game would just make assassins even worse than they are now. Also, hell no to MORE non-skill shot CC. All CC abilities should be skill shots IMO, or like alistars were if you are quick enough to react you can flash it, or morgana can black shield it. Fiddle fear is one of the worst CC's in the game just cause there is close to 0 outplay.

Baron Von Garen3/2/2019, 1:45:06 AM2 votes

Garen isn't a tank

Also Garen counters kat, zed, and fizz.

Malph obviously counters zed because he's similar to rammus in that he's a hard counter to physical damage champs

Also wtf is with the hp cut in half and blitzcrank Q being point and click???????

Illabethe3/2/2019, 3:27:39 AM1 votes

You have two solutions here:

  1. Take Karma , give her Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloud, etc, and bait out and totally troll assassins with a champion they cannot hit, but who tethers them in place for their team to annihilate.

  2. Take Ornn/Malphite and use the fact they can gain out of parameter armor to mitigate lethality and destroy a chunk of their damage, and then blow them up when they waste their kit with their ults.

Not all tanks are equally destroyed by a nontank meta.

I just completely destroyed a Fiora with Karma support. And my lane was hyper countered by a Kog Ma/Sona. Still went 9/4/16 as Support....

ZephyrDrake3/2/2019, 3:54:39 AM1 votes

Why do you want to make tanks into bruisers/juggernauts with CC? Tanks are not meant to 1v1 people unless they are ahead or the enemy missplays tremendously. The only help tanks need is a change to their core design since tanks literally are either the only class worth picking or a completely useless class with very little in between

Zed genius3/2/2019, 11:52:06 AM1 votes

This post about the assassin meta would make a lot more sense if there actually was an assassin meta

boricCentaur13/2/2019, 2:59:32 AM1 votes

Umm what most assassins suck like fizz and kat are not op if anything they need buffs and most tanks do well vs them like tanks fuck kat very hard since they can be build effectively vs her and stop her from using her ult which is where a lot of her team fight damage comes from. I think it is just your problem since the majority of assassins are not good and do poorly vs tanks.

Zdiddy5133/2/2019, 1:34:19 AM1 votes

Play lulu, she is freelo right now