Pls give Assist if TOOK damage

Parceval·Mar 7, 2017·12 votes·1,362 views

Let me tell you a story.

Tahm Kench is supporting Draven. Bard is supporting Miss Fortune, then Bard heads off on some charm offensive, and leaves mf alone.

Tahm Kench walks up to MF like an idiot, and laughs, licking the air, strumming his tongue, while MF shoots him in the face. What a tilter. Then Draven walks up, and BAM 1 Q crit to the face. League of Draven.

Draven kills mf. Bard plays the fiddle somewhere.

BUT. Tahm Kench doesn't get an assist. He did some mad slap-stick juju to put mf in a compromising position.

Why no jambalaya love?

Riot. When a champion dies, whomever both assisted the killer AND whomever took damage from the slain should BOTH earn assists. This would help with the gold discrepancy between "healer" supports, and "tank" supports.

That is all, <3.

23 Comments

belieberslayer69Mar 7, 20175 votes

Upvoted for the story, lul

LingLing23Mar 7, 20172 votes

Great idea!

Shuyin178Mar 7, 20172 votes

The life of a meat shield, forever poor.

RalanrMar 7, 20172 votes

That would support passive play too much. You should be encouraged to hit them once.

ParcevalMar 8, 20171 votes

It's not necessarily passive play. 90% of the time (as a sup main at least) that I take damage but don't deal it in the event of a kill was because I did some rather supporty things, like stepping in front of an MF q, blitz pull, etc.

Friendly RamMar 7, 20172 votes

if psychological warfare gave assists then lux laugh would also need to trigger this. also teemo would have 100% kill participation in all games.

ParcevalMar 8, 20171 votes

Not about psychology, that's just in the story. It's about taking damage to trigger an assist, since a meat shield can be essential to the success of a team.

Friendly RamMar 8, 20171 votes

item 3075 ?

ParcevalMar 8, 20171 votes

A single item shouldn't be forced JUST to get assists. That's ludicrous.

Yordle PotluckMar 7, 20171 votes

Huh, that's interesting. I wonder why that's never been done?

Sir FuzziMar 7, 20171 votes

I would kill for damage taken (IE tanked off the carry) would count to assists.

I feel like this isn't the direction Riot wants for their game, however.

ThePikolMar 7, 20171 votes

So I can run down mid feeding and still get assists? Great!

ParcevalMar 8, 20171 votes

Well, if your team is getting a bunch of kills off of your asshattery, then, sure.

SexualsaurusMar 7, 20171 votes

That can create some issues, imagine if karthus dies just after he ults the enemy team. Even though the enemy mid was the only one that killed him but the whole team gets an assist anyway.

ParcevalMar 8, 20171 votes

Hm, good point. But long range stuff is always weird, Soraka ult works kinda like that, even if it's accidental.

Asayake 5150glowMar 7, 20171 votes

What about long range stuff?

I didn't put myself in a bad spot to hit the hugeass Cho'Gath with my Q. The Rengar just oneshot me in the middle of my team anyway. Why would the Cho get an assist?

ParcevalMar 8, 20171 votes

With all the disadvantages currently of being a fatty (sunfire aura?) it's not necessarily bad to give meat shields a little more gold indirectly like that.

PhDs NutsMar 7, 20171 votes

What if you dealt no damage to someone that was tower diving you and died to turret shots? Would you then get the kill, or would that assist money be lost?

Or would this introduce more bugs to Azir and Mordekaiser, and cause death recap to give blue screen of death?

MatakeMar 8, 20171 votes

You are forced to build thronmail if you want to get an assist for being a meatshield

it has never been part of league and probably never will be

AdeBugMar 8, 20171 votes

fk no, that would mean any troll would miss their shots on purpose and tank everything to death, forcing any team mate around into a fight they consider bad but have to try to save him from feeding, and then the troll would get rewarded for it. really? best idea 2017 1 hit is not too much to ask, specially from a champ with ranged abilities, like what the actual fuck; if ur indeed zoning, then zone away all day, but dont trade 1 kill for 1 death, hello

ParcevalMar 8, 20171 votes

? 1 kill for 1 death is often an excellent exchange, especially if it's the carry for the support, etc.

Remember, the person has to actually DIE in order to get an assist. And I'm not talking about ranged champions, but supports, that share and assist in the making of plays. Particularly tank supports. Like Braum, for instance, he could put up a shield and protect his ADC while his adc got a double kill, but not get an assist.

AdeBugMar 8, 20171 votes