Assassins are good at every point

R4ndom F1nn·Jun 23, 2019·2 votes·879 views

They have high mobility, amazing damage, best escapes and the most effective builds. I recall hearing that assassins are supposed to have a super strong early game but fall off towards early game... Which is not true in the slightest, Riot has made it so that assassins are strong at every point in game. Can we finally make them what they are supposed to be, beast in early-game but fall off in lategame like total mad lads, instead of letting them be strong at every point in game.

6 Comments

ShadowDaddyJun 23, 20192 votes

Assassins are pretty much useless against any tanky or cc based comp. If your team lacks a strong frontline or good disengage, it's on you guys. If your team gets caught out in the middle of the lane at 1/3 hp, it's on you guys. Besides, you can negate most assassins' ability to roam in lane phase by picking an artillery or control mage. That's why assassins are only a major problem in lower Elo brackets. They prey on big mistakes.

Polaris IJun 23, 20191 votes

Assasins have 5 pen items 64% armor pen. And I think assasins have higher pickrates and win rates in higher elo but I’m not sure

preternaturalJun 23, 20191 votes

the whole point of lethality instead of armour penetration was to make assassins strong throughout the whole game because there was a disparity between the AP and AD choices. so it's kinda "working as intended" by your description.

R4ndom F1nnJun 23, 20191 votes

Is it being fair? Original design for them was to fall off lategame, but they don't. Meanwhile most champs start off strong but get focked towards lategame Olaf Pantheon and others start weak but become strong towards lategame Kayle Tryndamere having this one class outpower those classes both at early game and at lategame is not fair at all, the only weakness that assassins have is their squishiness (which assassin mains say makes up for everything) but mages, adcarries, and half of supports are squishy, but they aren't super strong at all points of game.

preternaturalJun 23, 20191 votes

well to be specific, assassins start relatively strong against everyone, then they drop off against certain classes and become better at dealing with others, aside from some edge cases who have to be good at dealing with everyone if they execute well enough, which makes them a problem in other elo's, not mine. despite all your complaints there is no assassin player that wants to be facing a bruiser, or a team of very beefy tanks, or team peel where there's supports in places they shouldn't be. that btw, is something folks don't like mentioning when it comes to assassin complaints, supports are very good at shutting down assassins, that's intentional.