Lets Stop Whining (Assassins and General Balance)

Trumpet·5/14/2015, 2:07:39 AM·4 votes·529 views

Can we please stop bitching about assassins (they are the most hated class)?

They only get to the point where they can one-shot you if you really messed up in the laning phase and almost all of them have long early cooldowns and costs that can be abused by people that know what they are doing. Also, by definition they are supposed to kill you, and if you want to kill them you have to get in their head the same way they get into yours.

So please read about a champion's kit on the wiki and then play a few games as them before you start whining how "OP" it is because someone (who was probably more skilled than you) dumpstered on you in lane.

Just because of one bad experience does not make the entire class total BS (because it is always one and then the next). It is important to learn to play against champions you may dislike at the moment because if you whine "holy shit [insert any champion here] op, riot please nerf" you probably shouldn't be making balance decisions or talking about balance.

Because in the end, everything has a pro and a con (except release Zyra, that really was holy shit level OP and got hotfixed within days) that can be exploited on either end, you just need to understand what you are doing and what your opponent may / can do.

Thanks

Rant over. Have a great day and good luck in solo que.

Edit: Can we make this not a Zed thread pls (if you want one many good circlejerks exist). It was supposed to be a thread about how we shouldn't whine on boards about balance.

9 Comments

DWT123455/14/2015, 2:14:23 AM2 votes

most assassins are pretty healthy. Riot just needs to take care of a few Zed and the class is fine.

1000angrybees5/14/2015, 6:12:39 AM2 votes

"ignore problematic champs and shittily designed kits whenever possible" = what I got out of this

I think a lot of assassins are pretty healthy (Ahri Khazix Nidalee ,etc), but saying that we shouldnt complain about assassins that dont feel good at all to lane against or fight in general (Leblanc Zed somewhatFizz ) isnt in anyway constructive.

CreationFlaw5/14/2015, 2:43:36 AM1 votes

Most Assassin's have a point of weakness that's commonly exploited, Zed's weakness is to buy a 1250 gold item that only builds into an AD item with MR. For real, MR? Talon and Akali have bad pre-6 and Talon also has high mana costs, zed has ranged poke, can farm safety, and turns into an even bigger beast then most late game assassins. Not to mention he's played in 1/4 games. That's the frustrating part, having to dodge 6 second 200 damage shurikens early is really annoying. Maybe it's just me raging tho.

Edit. Inb4 "Armor counters him" Well yeah, armor counters all Ad champions to some degree.

CreationFlaw5/14/2015, 3:03:48 AM1 votes

So you're saying poking an assassin who has safe farming is a counter, nice. Also, most cc's aren't on click, so they can be hard to land, but yeah, the general idea is to either cc or flash away after he lands. Either way, I'm saying compared to other assassins, he has too much safety for his reward.