Can we please make towers actually defend immobile casters?

Yenn·Sep 5, 2017·4 votes·350 views

I'm up 5 kills as Vel'koz against Annie, but the enemy Nocturne is also up 5 kills. He is literally 100 to 0'ing me in ~1.5 seconds with his ult the instant he gets vision of me, and there's nothing I can do to stop him because it's too early for hourglass.

This is dumb as fuck and needs improvement. There is literally zero outplay potential and zero counterplay for me in this situation. Playing safely under a turret should be a viable strategy to mitigate assassins diving immobile casters.

9 Comments

ModDaenrysTargaryenSep 5, 20172 votes

the thing is that they are called assassins for that reason, to kill fast and get out

Yaśuo MainSep 5, 20172 votes

not to mention noc has 5 kills and a direct way to attack vel from the get go

ModDaenrysTargaryenSep 5, 20171 votes

that as well

YennSep 5, 20173 votes

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the thing is that they are called assassins for that reason, to kill fast and get out

There's a difference between just barreling into an equally fed champion at 100% health under their turret and catching someone out of position or flanking.

5050BSSep 5, 20171 votes

What I hate is Assassins (and Annie and Syndra) get a free auto kill once they hit lvl 6.

Its BS because you cant build items in that time to stop their ults.

They LITERALLY have a handicap.

KVbqbFsC8eSep 5, 20171 votes

If he kills you in 1.5 seconds, what do you expect a tower to do? You want it to one shot him?

YennSep 5, 20171 votes

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If he kills you in 1.5 seconds, what do you expect a tower to do? You want it to one shot him?

I want it to give me additional survivability or do increased damage to him, because there are no minions near it.

PlatterSep 5, 20171 votes

Wards can spot those assassins before they make it to your lane, unless it is Talon then its a toss up. Either way they fall off late game due to armor/shielding etc. If you are a squishy and have an assassin on the enemy team get someone to buy locket/knights vow so that you can be shielded when they try to give you that fresh surprise butt sex, then jump on them together.

PhearBunnySep 5, 20171 votes

So there's a nocturne building assassin. I bet you won didn't you? A few tacky early game kills, aren't going to win the game if noct is gonna break meta and become a handicap in the end.

I imagine he became completely useless when u completed Zhonyas, much like every other all-in squishy with no escape routes.