Flowchart Guide for playing Assassins

Because assassins like Kha'Zix and Rengar still have that exact same window where they just dump a buttload of damage in less than a second, whereas champions like Kat has to masterfully fist you with dagger positioning in an extended 3 second trade in which she isn't even allowed to CC you.

Because of a few champs having the same, if not an even quicker burst window than pre-rework(Ok, probably only rengar).

Old assassins were seen as a problem because their kill windows were faster than other champs. Which was the point. They were supposed to kill targets in the quickest kill window among any other champ types (marksman, juggernaut,tank, mage, etc.).

Current assassins have their burst windows forcefully extended by gating them with cds, or some other out-of-the-way proccing method. That's good for counterplay for assassins, but it causes them to lose their niche of "fastest kill window". Many ADCs or bruisers, even juggernauts can at least kill targets as fast as assassins, or even faster. In addition, those champs have other bonuses that the assassins don't have. Talon has less sustained dmg and tankiness than Darius, for instance, and Darius can burst just as quickly. Vayne can do what Talon does, but with more self-peel, more sustained dmg, and arguably more range.

The only things assassins have over those champs are either:

1. roaming
2. mobility/get-out-of-jail-cards

However, most champs still have more get-out-of-jail-cards, or ones that are better. Riot has also added a lot more mobility with rage/phage effects, %ms increase(crit items, runaan's, youmuus being purchasable on non-assassin champs, etc.), or an overabundance off cc in champion kits (frozen mallet, Rylai's earlier).

So that leaves roaming. Assassins do have kits that can gank, but what makes them better than other champs at roaming? Nothing, with a few exceptions.

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And some champs lose their in-combat mobility, or some dmg aspect in exchange for the roaming that they . get(Talon)

The key is relativity. What makes an assassin an assassin? A kill window quicker than other champs is probably at their core. Riot has extended a few other things, such as roaming, and get-out-of-jail cards, but that wasn't executed as well as it could've been. With a kill window that's on equal grounds(or lower, sometimes) in relativity to other champs, you no longer have a good answer to the question, "why pick X or X assassin?"

We aren't using pre-rework kill windows. I'm judging that based on the kill windows of most champs in the game with the exception of, like...support tanks, early ADCs (some), and some utility champs.

He's not stronger in an Assassin sense.

Reliability is much lower now and need to snowball is much higher...