Little rant about few assassins [poll]
TL;DR under post. I'm prepared for all downvotes from stealth-assassin haters.
You might think of me as casual, fotm chasing, player I don't really mind it. I just wanna say that some champions, i truly enjoyed playing, were pretty much destroyed by their own creator: Riot. I understand some assassin-champions just have to be toned down. Otherwise they'd totaly wreck others. I was with you guys when you asked for some of assassin nerfs. But I have never ever though Riot would be so harsh.
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All those champions recieved heavy nerfs. They are still playable, but not as pure assassins, but more as some kind of mixture of ass-tank-bruiser-fighter-ssin. It happen because Riot didn't balance them "properly". Instead of nerfing and then slowly buffing them to point where they'd be balanced, they just gone full "I-don't-care-anymore" and smashed "NERF BUTTON".
In some cases "nerf button" was disguised under "soft rework". For example Evelynn (yeah, I did it again..). Before, she was deadly assassin. Truly OP. I won't deny it. What should have been done? Nerfs, so she'd be less oppressing. What did we get? Rework+nerf into hybrid fighter-tank with low cc, no nuke & tank ultimate. And then she was nerfed again.... twice.
Then we have Rengar. He was just as deadly as pre-reworked Evelynn. Alot of players asked & begged for nerfs for that cat abomination. And once again, next champion lost his viability as his primary role and was forced to be something he shouldn't supposed to be. Tbh it was game as Rengar that made me write this (boring for some) post. My build wasn't even close to how assassin build should look. But if I did build him like pure assassin, game would have ended with me beating my death score record. I just couldn't get the feeling of dealing any damage. I did soak damage like proper sponge.. But.. God dammit, as Rengar with my jumps i was kited like little baby against Kalista. That was so frustrating!!!! Me assassin. With awesome leaps & (e)bola strike.. And she was like "meh i don't care" and proceed with passive jumping away...
Twitch: he's little tricky as his primary role is combined assassin + ADC. And Riot didn't know exactly what to do with him. And in the end he's rather bad as both, assassin & ADC.
And then we have champions like Zed or Nidalee. Zed master of wave clearing, safe-play & super burst and Nidalee master of all trades with almost no drawbacks (she lacks huge world wide AOE nuke, but i heard Riot is already working on fixing this). Anyways i also ask for Nida & Zed nerfs, BUT i really do hope Riot won't go into 180 degree way of thinking and from OP champions we'll get 2 unplayable UP champions.
Lastly: Don't even start with METAs, Tank meta, ADC meta, flying poo meta. I'll repeat: I do not want them to become too deadly. Nor make some new hitman META, no. Just viable & successful as assassins. Where their core mechanic would be high risk = high reward.
Conclusion: Some champions were hurt far too much just to please & calm playerbase. I believe it's about time for slowly lifting nerf-boot of some assassin champion faces. I do NOT want them to turn into ban-or-lose champions. I just want them back as real assassins that aren't forced to build tankier than mao/mundo every game just to be slightly viable.
I could be writing this into looong rant, but what's the point. I've calmed down now. Everyone who did read, thank you for your patience.
As promised, TL;DR Some assassins were nerfed because they were too deadly. Now they are sulking in the corner as some tank-fighter hybrids. I'm asking to give them (at least) small buffs so they could be viable as just-assassins again.
Poll included, what do you guys think?