Ap Assassins

I've mained assassin mid laners for a long time now and recently the game has been getting less and less enjoyable with each new season and I don't see anyone talking about it. This is mainly for AP assassin mid/top laners.

Items: There aren't enough items in the game for an AP assassin play style. A lot of AP items give stats like health and mana that as assassins, we do not want. Not enough items are like Deathcap or Spellbinder, that give a lot of AP and some other useful stat for an assassin like Cooldown reduction, Movement speed, Spell Vamp, etc... There are items like Morellonomicon or Ludens Echo that give a good amount of AP, but also have more stats tacked on that drives the price of the item up and make it less impactful on an assassin. This issue is making champions that aren't supposed to be beefy like Fizz and Heimerdinger a lot more tanky in the laning phase due to build components, which kind of defeats the purpose of an assassins early game pressure if they have hundreds of extra hp early on.

Runes Reforged: The new rune system came out almost 2 years ago with the promise of new runes being added, since it was new and unfinished like pre-ordering a game. This is why until now I have been fine with only having 1 rune I can actually use because I was assuming that more would be added. We are over a year of them being out and they really need to change things or revert the runes back to runes/masteries. The only rune you can take as an assassin is electrocute. Predator is very ineffective on almost every champion that isn’t hecarim and the reworked dark harvest is just a worse electrocute on most. Dark Harvest and Predator aren't bad for the game, they are simply very niche rune picks that only apply to a select few champions.

The 3 extra choices under the main component are quite nice and are what I'd like to see for an assassin, but the issue with this is that everyone can build them as a secondary. For example a Lissandra with aftershock to be unkillable also being able to take the assassin extras as a secondary or a Xerath with comet for non stop poke being able to build the same assassin secondaries. I think everyone knows that the middle of the three secondaries for domination are a lot worse than the other two, meaning that the downside of only being able to choose from two categories as a secondary is completely useless. The old rune system was nice because it had so much diversity to compliment your play style. You want to play Vladimir and have good sustain against a poke champion? You could go some spell vamp and and maybe some tankiness. You want to go a leblanc and one shot a bitch? You go full ap and ap scaling and one shot a bitch. Now I feel like I have so much less diversity in how I want to play the game because of the new runes and champions are either really good or really bad depending on how effective they can use a rune.

Champions: With the addition of every new update, the game changes slightly and eventually the game hits the point where some previous things that were good are no longer good. This is true for assassins with all the new introductions like ivern with his constant cc, shields, and heals, characters like Zac, Soraka, and Warwick having cc shoved onto their kit because they are a little on the weaker side. Not to mention the change in the support role where supports aren’t just buying Sightstone every game and are actually able to make money and be a useful tank or shield/healer able to protect and disengage the squishies a lot more, and more importantly, earlier in the game. The point of the adc is to be a monster in the late game being hard to kill due to the supports and others protecting them, but now supports are too effective at protecting the adc meaning that even if they aren't just one shotting everything super early, we as assassins don't have a job to do and get fed off of, which is our win condition most of the time.

I'm interested to hear your guys' opinions and perhaps understand why some things are how they are.