Was the Assassin Update a success?

FancyKiwi··2 votes·654 views

Riot had two goals with the Assassin Update that were they wanted to give each assassin a reason to be picked over other assassins and the other being that they wanted to make assassins more fair to play against. Do you think they achieved their goals?

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Cocho2 votes

We've seen a bit of assassins become viable/picked in competitive. Rengar Khazix Katarina Fizz Ekko Leblanc

In that sense, it was a success. They've widened the window to some extent for each assassin, so its a bit more fair. Imo they need to do something with summoner 3 because of the bigger window.

They fixed alot of problems with Katarina for the player and the enemy.

I feel like it was a success, but the assassin class as a whole can be a pain, because of summoner 3 . Thats my biased opinion.

zaire901 votes

Ekko , Rengar , Khazix ,Leblanc were always viable (dont watch much lcs but ik ive seen clips with them in lcs matches) were always viable tho Also what was the problem with kat for the player as i played alot of her pre rework and never noticed anything besides probably her bad early game

Cocho1 votes

Getting Q'd, and being unable to interact with her. It used to bounce on 5, she can't q a minion to harass you consistently anymore, zoning you off the minion wave. You couldn't gank her.

She would kill a mid-ish health squishy in a teamfight in 0.0 seconds in a teamfight, and get her 1st reset.

The 4 picks you mentioned, the last 3 weren't picked like they are now. They were niche, counters, not just overall strong. Ekko was played as a tank, now we're seeing him played as an assassin.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

Nope. Still don't see any reason to pick anything other than Leblanc Khazix Rengar pretty much 99% of the time

Iron Wu1 votes

They completely killed the ADC role in doing so.

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Iron Wu,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=wLJqF5lv,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2017-01-28T08:16:29.161+0000)

They completely killed the ADC role in doing so.

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ChaddyFantome1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Iron Wu,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=wLJqF5lv,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2017-01-28T08:16:29.161+0000)

They completely killed the ADC role in doing so.

They literally made every assassin easier for ADC's to not die to.

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