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Is funnelling a symptom of assassins being too weak?

Very Cash Money·6/23/2018, 11:36:56 PM·2 votes·979 views

I thought a bit about it and usually funnelling comes in two versions, protect the carry which FNC tried twice (3 supports) and just a funnel combo with standard lanes (karth+nunu fx).

Now a funnels glaring weakness is that the carry doesn't get any harder to kill and just like any other person that snowballs become a giant target, take that boss down and the enemy is out of oomph, however with assassins being unviable (in pro at least, yoloQ anything goes) there is no reliable way to take down a fed person. This mean that the rock paper scissors. Assassin>funnelling protect the AD>Assassins classic>protect the ad Funnelling>Classic(and protect AD)

With assassins out of the picture Funnelling just becomes a lot less risky since you don't even need reliable support to keep the ultra carry alive. (An example is optic vs Fox this week, only supports are the classic but that is plenty to keep the AD alive.)

5 Comments

bobyboucher6/24/2018, 12:06:21 AM1 votes

No would say it is a result of the new early snowball win in 20 mins meta. Assassins adc and tanks....basically anything that dominates late game when they get items traditionnally had to our class the planning opponent in player skill or farm late game to shine. Now if you take that item spike that puts them ahead and fast track to it through fuelling you get all the advantages of the assassin with none of the waiting for the items.

Ergo the early game but galls off layer champs don't have the traditional.advatage off the late game scaler and the late game scaler is full beast mode where the early game snowballed should be dominating it.

It's simply a way to skip the waiting to scale and blowing up the enemy team.... boring as fuck but a solution to the dev team having delayed the spike with many item changes ... players will aleaysbthink of creative ways to abuse changes devs make specially with the pbe testing that is done in lol.

heroikc6/24/2018, 12:50:10 AM1 votes

No, I think it's partly a response to the jungle changes.

Dope Solo6/24/2018, 1:09:08 AM1 votes

AH HAAHH HAAH HA HA HAH! Too weak, good one. 8/10 would troll again.