Can someone explain to me why we need assassins in this game?

vfactor95··3 votes·214 views

Other than to satisfy the pre-pubescent CoD fucks who think the game revolves on solo killing your lane opponent?

It's not to kill adcs because we have burst mages for that.

It's not to kill mages because fighters do that as well as other mages.

Split pushing is a strategy that can be used by a variety of champions now (Zz'rot portal Garen OP)

They encourage selfish play in a game that revolves around team play (or at least it's supposed to) and I frankly don't a reason for the class to exist. I honestly think if we removed every champ in the game with a primary tag of "assassin" league would be a lot easier to balance.

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BluePolarizer1 votes

Burst mages can't kill ADCs through all their peel. Burst mages are mostly there for AOE. Fighters can kill ADCs through moderate peel but can't kill ADCs through strong peel. In general though, assassins are good in teamfights against long ranged, squishy, mostly skillshot dependent champs. They can get in their face, dodge their stuff, and get out.

Of course the actual execution oftentimes is, they get in their face and get a pentakill.

shadecrapper1 votes

Riot has been killing Assassins slowly.

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