Assasins are getting more braindead over the years. Most of them are AD

I Spread Cancer·11/8/2018, 10:24:20 PM·7 votes·2,094 views

When I first started league of legends, the idea of most assasin were about beeing flashy and skillful. Now most of them are about 0.1 secondes 1 shot point & click by missing some of their spell.

Braindead assasin despite their viabity

Not braindead nor very skillful

Require skill to assasinate with

As you can see, AD assasins are much more of a problem and this is mainly because of this . Notable item for AP with is pretty braindead too.

31 Comments

Pillar Of SaIt11/8/2018, 10:46:08 PM7 votes

Are you implying ahri is a skillful champion?

Someone make a scooby doo meme with "I Main Cancer" being the mask, and "Ahris" being the person underneath

Dehydration11/8/2018, 10:44:21 PM5 votes

Ahri is definitely easier than lb.

DaTrout7711/8/2018, 10:59:18 PM2 votes

While i can see most of your points aside the Ahri being skillful (im guessing that was just a joke)

I agree with the point of duskblade being most of the cause of it, but i dont believe its whole reason. For example if you removed duskblade then just about every ad assassin is basically weak. The reason they gave a strong braindead item like dusk is because most ad assassins have alot more counterplay than ap assassins (not all just most) for example while most ap assassins can pop enemies extremely quickly they also dont have much outplay potential which makes them viable whether they are braindead or not, while ad assassins have alot more outplay potential (whether its because their burst isnt as fast because they can aa for dmg or because their burst is extremely telegraphed)

Zed without dusk is relatively weak because his ult is countered by stopwatch or hourglass and without dusk he doesnt quite have the dmg to pop people in one combo

Talon without dusk isnt able to pop people and his burst is at some points easily telegraphed

The rest i assume you can figure out on your own.

My point is that there is too much outplay potential in champs now, so in order to make assassins viable they need to give them the ability to assassinate. I dont think ad assassins are a problem right now, if anything its ap assassins that need a nerf. If you look at the most played champs from plat+ the first assassin that appears is Ahri at number 23 and there are 4 more ap assassins after until the first ad assassin which is zed at 43.

I do wish there was a way for them to fix the braindead part about assassins because i honestly loved assassins being skillful to play. But i think if they remove it then ad assassins will be in a very bad spot.

ReWeebdown11/9/2018, 9:51:28 AM1 votes

Are you seriously telling me Ekko is op, while telling me that Akali is fine? W T F So, Ekko cant one shot you, he has to land his Q 2 times, to proc his passive, also he needs at item 3145 when fed and item 3057 if not even item 3100 if not fed. If you feed an Ekko early thats 100% your fault.

And Akali, yeah her burst isn't as instant as the other ones, but once she has her ult and gunblade it doesnt matter. She can 100-0 you in about 4 secs, while beeing untargetable. There is also almost no ounterplay. You know countering assassins is pretty easy. Don't run sidelanes alone (ESPECIALLY NOT AS AD CARRY) and get some cc. Easy as that.

AscendingHope11/9/2018, 1:57:19 PM1 votes

leblanc is braindead?? Also who builds protobelt on diana?

Dr Dog11/9/2018, 2:54:10 PM1 votes

there are just, so many things wrong with this, first off throw ahri in the first tier shes such a free champion, you have about one skillshot you need to hit along with one of the least risky lanes in the game. shaco is in the top tier, he is the highest skill capped assassin and definitely harder than akali or ahri, khazix may be overtuned rn but he has a lot of combos and cant just mash his keyboard for a kill unless hes fed, definitely mid tier along with evelynn because of how shit tier her early game is, almost every meta jger can destroy her with invades making a lot of her difficulty put into needing very good pathing

Diana hole11/9/2018, 4:41:19 PM1 votes

Tanks are getting more braindead over the years because they are very hard to kill and most of their abilities are point and click

Adcs are getting more braindead over the years because their main source of damage is point and click

Fighters are getting more braindead over the years because their main source of damage is point and click

I can apply the same logic to other classes. If you think assassins are braindead, get to masters with them, so you have a strong point.

LeftyRaydy11/9/2018, 12:38:46 AM1 votes

First I don't know what you mean by brain dead because half of these champs are not easy to master. while some simple concepts and combos are easy to pull off that doesnt make a champion braindead, because I think everyone can land an Ahri charm then QWR ignite or REQW ignite that is as easy as it gets. the "requires skill" champs you picked all have very easy ways to assassinate as well. Ahri is probably the easiest and the safest assassin out of all of them. Nidalee while hard can Wait until she lands a spear or someone steps on a trap, then guess what GG easy she goes in and assassinates with super high damage. Katarina can get good bounces then all she has to do is face roll the keyboard (however a skilled katarina will know how to do this more often). Akali is another one where it is hard to assassinate, but at the same time she has sustain and the most overloaded ability in the game with her shroud. I will agree on Diana and Kassadin as they are very 1 dimensional possibly rengar and evelyn as well. I know Ekko is Definitely not braindead easy are you kidding me. He doesnt have an I kill you know ability he has to set that up and actually work for it unless he is fed.

Idk why I wasted so much time commenting on a person who listed Ahri as requiring skill to assassinate.

saltran11/9/2018, 12:42:21 AM1 votes

Yikes