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Being a mage main who finally played there first assassin ever assassins are easy

Xicashina·1/17/2016, 5:43:30 PM·6 votes·1,071 views

So Im a silver 3 player who is an extensive fan of mages or tanks when laning in top or mid. My main is eve jg (who in case anyone here is an idiot is not an assassin as she can't 100-0 someone until 40+ minions in if she builds full damage .P.S. which is generally a bad idea unless they have 2 weak dueling hyper carries) I decided that I should probably try to learn an assassin as I don't play any of them (barring a few games on alkaliAkali (who's easiness i thought was just her)). Turns out that in my first game as EkkoEkko top I won lane (while having no idea how his abilities worked vs a Diamond 2 player on Lissandra (who counters assassins) then proceeded to do more damage than the majority of my team. Next game of ekko top I won lane again quite easily. Im basically realizing that assassins while far from OP do require far less skill to pull of than immobile mages/even many tanks in some cases. Team fights were notably harder than laning as assassins but at the same time they were still rather easy (nowhere near the difficulty most people say they are). In addition many of the "outplays" that people talk about showing high skill cap were very easy to pull off (Ulting back out of liss ult as she's about to cast it then e qing her as she exits, casting w behind you in a team fight and utling into it etc etc.)

At least now i know why all the assassins I play have atrocious game sense

TLDR, From my experience Assasins have much lower skill base and much lower skill ceiling than people claim, this in turn leads to people at mid elo silverish who main assassins to have far worse game sense as they don't require it tol do well on there champs/explains why people who play so much assassins claim its elo hell

EDIT: Well this is interesting as a general response to some of the people who responded -Generally when I play a champion for the first time be they a tank, mage marksman etc., I often will feed horribly or just not fill in the role I should be doing. Even if I may have lots of experience with the role (I.E. my first few games as Cass I went 1-7 etc. until I got more experienced with her and can pull of a consistantly good score 9-3, 8-5-, 10-2 etc.) In comparison I noticed that on my very first game as Ekko (Who i classify as much more of an assassin) I found myself doing quite well which surprised me as many assassins such as him are called "high skill cap/high skill base" which from my experience appears to be bs.

26 Comments

alasarcher1/17/2016, 5:54:22 PM8 votes

Lissandra was low plat, but thats irrelevant. Lissandra doesnt counter all assasins, she counters Zed. As for Ekko, he is not really assassin, he is somehow hybrid between Mage and tank and assassin. Also that Lissandra ended 10:4, so i am not quite sure how you "won lane" as she has more kills, more farm, more gold earned and she destroyed your turret, while you didnt destroy hers. Not sure what "won lane" means to you. Also you had high plat jarvan jungling who influenced game alot, while Lissandras Naut only fed. I suggest you go test Ekko in ranked game and see how it goes and how "easier" it is.

Ionian1/17/2016, 5:58:21 PM5 votes

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So Im a silver 3 player

Irrelevant opinion.

The Poetic Zed1/17/2016, 5:50:53 PM3 votes

TLDR, From my experience

aka not an accurate sample base

Xilixer1/17/2016, 5:51:07 PM3 votes

The downvotes are assassin mains.

Very Hard Engage1/17/2016, 6:05:25 PM3 votes

dude, you gotta realize something, 35% of players are assassin MAINS, meaning anything you post will be downvoted if you say anything negative about assassins at all.

WalkingInACircle1/17/2016, 6:42:33 PM2 votes

It's true but they don't like hearing it.

AyRe CoNteMpT1/17/2016, 5:48:49 PM2 votes

yes assassins are easy, at least most of them. some require quite some skill not for their assassinations but for their mapcontrol, others are just flat out noskill champs. congratulations for noticing it.

ZephyrDrake1/17/2016, 5:52:12 PM2 votes

yeah, it's because of assassins being so easy that low elo players have terrible game sense not because, well you know, THEY ARE LOW ELO PLAYERS!

wokedaddy1/17/2016, 6:05:21 PM2 votes

Stopped reading after silver 3 said he beat a diamond 2 players KAPPA

Thrëat1/17/2016, 7:21:17 PM2 votes

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So Im a silver 3 player who is an extensive

Stopped reading there. Every type of champion is easy in silver. AP lee sin is extremely easy in silver. Nerf AP lee.

PleaseReportMeTY12/13/2016, 11:07:15 PM1 votes

yo, visit twich, there are about 10 midlaners from challenger streaming atm. not even one of them is playing assassin. not even once every 10 games. simple as that.

MasterPrankster1/17/2016, 5:59:07 PM1 votes

This is the biggest and most obvious example of a circlejerk ive ever seen, stop trying to squeeze upvotes out this is absolutely a baseless argument, and while commenting seems to positively attribute to the popularity of the thread, i don't need to worry about that too much since the rain of downvotes that I believe will come will pretty much bury it.

Troiann1/17/2016, 10:38:07 PM1 votes

You're mid silver.

Assassins are easy to play against people who don't know how to play the game.

Of course you have an easy time.

High elo mages do a lot better. Why do you think mages are perma picked in LCS?