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Assassin help?

AkumaLuck·6/23/2015, 12:04:03 AM·1 votes·628 views

So for a while now, I've been operating on the advice that, if you want to climb, the best thing to do at lower elo is to focus on champions that are easier to play mechanically, so that you have less to focus on in lane, and can focus more on how to play the game. Now I agree with this stance to some degree, and I see the logic behind it, but following it has lead to one thing; I'm bored. Been playing mostly Vladimir, and I am, by no definition of the word, "owning" with him. I just find him boring to play. Sit back, farm till late game, hit a couple buttons to aoe everyone, ect. Personally, I've always found Assassins to be really neat (Please, I understand how typical that statement is, I am literally every league player ever, I know), but obviously a few of them could be quite hard to play mechanically. So I was wondering a few things;

  1. Is there an assassin that you could also consider easy to play?
  2. In terms of assassins would it be better to just bite the bullet and progress slower by maining a more skill intensive champion?
  3. What are your thoughts on maining an AD Assassin, particularly when it comes to team composition?

3 Comments

Mat7itan6/23/2015, 12:12:01 AM1 votes
  1. I wouldn't really say there are any easy to play assassins, but I also would say that really aren't any difficult assassins.
  2. That's up to you. Play whoever you enjoy playing and you will climb because people tend to play better on champions they enjoy.
  3. I would never recommend maining an ad assassin (especially at low tier play when ad tops and junglers are more prevelent), but I recommend learning how to play an ad assassin for team comps.
PBnJelly6/23/2015, 12:53:09 AM1 votes

I don't know who would give the advice to just play easy champs, because that's only good when you're just starting the game. I would definitely say it would be worth picking up assassins if you feel like that's what you want to play. Get comfortable with champions that you enjoy and you'll learn to carry with them. Last season during "League of Assassins", I mained Syndra (although I admit she was pretty broken back then too) and carried myself out of Silver pretty easily with a 78% winrate once I got pretty good at her. This season I actually became a Support main and carried myself from Silver 5 to Plat just by playing champs that I'm comfortable with.

Also addressing your actual questions:

  1. Assassin as a role is generally low skill floor, high skill cap. Everyone and their dog can play Akali or Talon but it takes more than average to actually master the champs.
  2. It's completely up to what champs look fun and interesting to you. Also if you like a challenge or if you like the satisfaction of knowing you're good at a difficult champ, then go for something more difficult. In the end, learning the champ should be enjoyable, not "biting the bullet".
  3. As I said before, it doesn't matter what you play as long as you're comfortable. AD assassins can be less reliable in some ways, most notably being that it makes a full AD team comp much more likely which can kinda suck. However they can also splitpush/take objectives really well which AP assassins generally can't do.
Dreadlocks6/23/2015, 1:46:51 AM1 votes

Akali Talon MasterYi Shaco I find these fairly easy..