@Riot, Could we get some insight on future assassin updates?
After marksman updates eventually start running, are there any plans of reworking midlane assassins a la juggernauts as well? More specifically, will there be any aims of making assassins viable in competitive as well, without them becoming overly dominant? With only a few midlane assassins seeing competitive play (sometimes yasuo/zed/diana), it would be interesting to live in a meta where picks like a reworked katarina/talon/akali are also available without just crushing an entire enemy team. I am also assuming there will be several itemization changes for marksman, which will obviously affect assassins as well. Do you think assassins can exist in League in a healthy state at all? Since juggernauts have been buffed, it makes sense that marksmen are buffed in order to mitigate juggernaut strength. Likewise, to keep marksmen down from just kiting teams, assassins have to be able to be effective as well.
Edit: I think there should be special attention to fixing up assassins in a way that doesn't result in "soloqueue assassins" and "competitive-viable assassins"-- both which are strong, but see little play outside of their respective niche. For example, Talon as a "soloqueue assassin" and Zed being "competitive viable"