"Oh, we removed DFG because it was adding extra burst to already bursty champions!!"

Cass and Viktor have been consistent balancing issues since S4 and both have had 2 reworks since then and their core issues are still the exact same, neither have ever been fun to play vs either. Syndra is insanely strong right now, she power crept. It's true, Talon, Zed, Yasuo, LB counter these champs, but to need to rely on champs who get totally outscaled by third item anyway, what's the point in trying to use them vs those champs ? (Yasuo is the exception he scales as well as they do.)

: Congratu-fricken-lations you blocked Projectiles, now how will you deal with with AoE splashes and MORE projectiles, and that nice long 20+ cooldown early on. Oh, and remember, you don't have easy access to minion waves in teamfights so good luck if you don't have open slash targets and no knockups to transfer to. You can outplay really hard, but you can also flop really hard. He's both insanely OP and not even that good at the same time due to his sheer reliance on skill, making him your new god or that one annoying guy who keeps asking if you want his fire mixtape. : For all the b!tching that people do, this guy really isn't that bad considering you only get to burst down one guy. Yes he can dive into an opponent team, kill a priority target (if you're lucky that is) and get the hell out, but honestly it's extremely frustrating to deal with even if you can port around due to consistent Mage CC, the item literally built to counter assassins and the fact that you are more reliant on just bursting them before they can react, so you have no sustained teamfight damage if you blow your rotation and your opponent lives. : I mean.... Cooldowns ain't a problem if you can get kills... but... Your Shunpo ain't up forever and zhonya's still exist, and Aegis makes your life a living nightmare considering it can just eat an ultimate if timed correctly. Also, you have 1 escape rather than anything, so if you screw up your reset you're even more worthless than a support vs a 10/0 ADC if you're behind. : Tbh actually not much I can say. pretty balanced overall until she hits her god deletion phase midgame and then becomes a one trick assassin that relies on her dashes which BY FAR has the most outplay potential besides yasuo. But she also once again can be easily countered by correcting a build path and her invisibility is only that. Invisible. Early on you are a glorified damage sponge to midlane mages that can delete you, and Cassiopeia is a nightmare for you since she just shuts down ALL mobility you have an reveals you thanks to her ult stun and poison tick noise. : Did you... did you just? DID YOU JUST MENTION THIS GUY AS AN ASSASSIN? triggered but in all cases full AP ekko is pretty rare for assassin, and he was overloaded, but ult is down and you ain't got no convergence? Child you have a dash and a blink, and I can guarantee you if you don't have ult that mage is going to destroy you in one rotation. Also, you're still melee evne with timewinder, so you have to be 1. A god at dodging skillshots and dealing with AoE and targeted control and 2. High AP burst enough to delete them before zhonya... once again... : She's a mage assassin. Like, a true MAGE ASSASSIN. She's ridiculous for burst early on and that's what wins her games. I'd put her back in the mage category, but yeah, probably the best counter to any squishy mages since your burst makes Zhonya's a do or die if you don't rush it. But she's a mage assassin, and not melee. So I give you the credit, but eh. : "Only in this matchup" - Brickyorchid8. Its true. Talon is a feast or famine depending on his matchups. Yes you can always outplay, but if you're that skilled at talon then chances are you are either a main of him or you just have played him for such a long time its become natural. He's no true mobility. You can teleport but you have a GUARANTEED exit location unless you ult, meaning THEY KNOW WHERE YOULL END UP rather than you being able to reposition. And while it is fast, I feel Talon's movement is a lot slower compared to the other assassins, and a Zhonya's end talon's reign of terror as AD carries can predict his movement really well, and mages can set up their CC. I've played Talon against Lux, someone who he can counter, and she demolished me if I even messed up my combo by a hair because she knows my exit path. Always behind. He'll rip you a new one with his blades, or just slap you with a knife until you die properly.

Final verdict: needs an AD version or something to that effect for Assassin's/ AD carries where it does a big anti-invulnerability burst regardless of the effect or let assassin's deal lowered damage through it. It's atrociously strong for mages since it gives them that safety, and unless you're yasuo or Akali or LeBlanc you do not have consistent damage because your rotations are meant to delete, and if you can't carry that out you flop horrendously. I lost an entire Zed game because I simply couldn't counter Syndra because even if you consider all her abilities, predict all of them, If she still has zhonya my burst was instantly negated. and the item provides good AP too, which is absolutely ridiculous considering it has an anti-Assassin ability mixed in. The counterpart to Zhonya's would technically be but then it only protects one solid burst and is triggered by TAKING damage, something you never needed for Zhonya's.

I'm not ranting because "Mages OP" but right now they are just too well suited and outdo most assassins. There's a reason why the world stage has seen so little assassins midlane. They simply cannot compete with mages right now due to how good mage items can burst an opponent down similar to an assassin, while providing good movement (i'm pointing my finger at you ) and while balanced its too reliable and honestly so good even if you're not a primary mid-lane mage

You mean that the developers abandon their own boards in favor of what amounts to nothing more than a "fan site" and you're actually blaming the playerbase?

Oh, and they "address" MM because he strokes Riot off at every opportunity and supplies nothing more than feelings about changes with a reassuring "I'm sure Riot will figure out these problems, guys!" Nothing MM says is of any importance, which is likely why Riot makes sure to notice him.

Reddit is the preferred site people chose to go to. No one is forcing them out of the official League sites but if that's where the party's at, Riot is there to answer the questions as the majority of people go there.

I don't use ask.fm, reddit, facebook or twitter. I browse the boards. There's a lot of information here as well.