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Assassins suck

BarryMcocnier·4/2/2018, 11:04:16 PM·8 votes·918 views

Uh oh another complaint thread how original of me.

My name is Barry and I have been playing League since the end of season 6. I have loved assassins since I started playing, I have been doing exactly what every high elo player has told me NOT to do since the beginning. I was placed in bronze V but I continued to play my favorite champion Zed anyway, because who cares what they think? They tell you not to play assassins because you need to learn "how to play the game" instead of the mechanics. Well, I eventually climbed to Gold (which I am proud of so flame or call me bad all you want), but I have noticed just how terrible assassins are. ESPECIALLY ZED. Zed simply can not catch a break, and I am prepared for every ADC main to complain about being one shot, well boohoo because I had to deal with the ardent meta and I do not want to hear shit from you lol.

Imagine playing Zed and how difficult it is to actually assassinate someone. You have so much to think about before you can "just press R and kill them". Do they have exhaust? Have they blown stopwatch? (Dont even get me started on stopwatch meta thank god they nerfed it) Guardians Angel? Does their support have Locket? DO THEY HAVE NINJA TABIS????????? I feel like if they rush ninja tabis the lane is over most games. Also some ADCs have a built in defense (looking at you xayah mains). Those are some of the thoughts you have to get through BEFORE you even press R. And if they have even ONE of these items then all your damage simply does not matter. It is too easy to counter Zed, I have not been keeping up with LL stylish lately but I know he agrees that playing zed is much more difficult now.

Now I love zed and I dont care if they nerf him to aatrox level, I will continue to play him because he is so much fun. But I hate feeling like im putting my team at a disadvantage because if I dont end the game at 15min in then they will have 23 counters against me and I am useless. Also I would love it if Riot made a different item for assassins in general, as we simply dont itemize as well as other roles. Top simply builds defenses against who they need to. Jungle is a mix/bruiser. ADC can build lethality, crit, or ap/ad. Supports build ardent then afk (haha jk idk). But assassins all revolve around the same 2/3 items, duskblade, ghostblade, and black cleaver (which is a bruiser item btw). I do not think the assassins themselves need buffs necessarily, but I do think that league should add different items for them. Any thoughts on this?

TLDR; Read it and stop cheating

8 Comments

Mafia LeBlanc4/2/2018, 11:12:54 PM2 votes

Your biggest issue in climbing with Zed isn't that he is bad, but because he has a very frequent banrate, along with Yasuo.

On the contrary, Zed is extremely strong - he is resourceless, low cooldowns, and has extremely high burst and great farm potential. Most assassins were changed at the beginning of season 7 to give more counterplay (i.e. delays), but they are still capable of high damage. He is great in lane and has a very strong mid game.

Your job as an assassin is to end the game before the enemy ADC gets 6 items. Most assassins have a ski slope winrate where the longer the game goes, the lower their chance of winning. You should try playing the game from the ADC or support point of view and play against Zeds and see how oppressive and gamechanging he is prior to 30-40 minutes into a match. It will also show you how to play against him, so you know the tactics your opponents will use when you go in on them.

Zeraon4/2/2018, 11:12:16 PM1 votes

they could use the ap item treatment but adc items need revamped first 2600 for major crit items is not ok lol.

Dreadlocks4/2/2018, 11:26:08 PM1 votes

The issue with assassins; is the game is very team focused, 5v5 etc.. assassins do best when games are more chaotic and reward single player skill. Current bounty systems etc favor team-play.

bbQsauçe4/2/2018, 11:47:02 PM1 votes

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