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LatetotheRace·4/20/2015, 1:14:14 AM·1 votes·357 views

Riot backs up this claim: Burst Damage beats Sustained Damage (APC > ADC) Sustained Damage beats Tank (ADC > Tank) Tank beats Burst Damage (Tank > APC)

If this is how they think the game works, they don't actually play the game. If a team has both AD and AP bursters, eg assassins. Tank is irrelevant. You can have vi (hard tank build) and Leona, and we can try our best to lock them down, but they simply bypass us and murder the squishies, what's the point? Why? Why play tanks, hell why play supports. When whoever has the most assassins wins?

This concept of "League of assassins" has to come to an end. If this is a game a teamwork, what's the point of having a champion that can consistently 1v3-5? I have many questions, which I have put here. Much like most questions, I would like an answer. (I don't want to hear that CC beats assassins, if you can burst someone down in less than a second, there is no chance CC off.)

8 Comments

GaleWinUnleashed4/20/2015, 1:53:17 AM3 votes

The point is tanks are supposed to be beefy enough to avoid being killed by one combo from an assassin. If that's not the case, the assassin must have gained a huge lead on the tank during that game.

50000000000000004/20/2015, 2:20:45 AM2 votes

A team of assassins wouldn't have any teamfight potential.

Rico Nasty4/20/2015, 1:24:37 AM1 votes

The thing is, there will never be such a thing as a balanced assassin. They're either inevitably broken (Katarina, Zed, Leblanc) or complete trash (Evelynn, Twitch). The assassin role in general is so poorly designed because it's literally just puking damage on people and keymashing and that's about it. It makes it worse that a lot of assassins are manaless, or their resource regenerates very quickly.

And this is coming from an Akali main.

Dangerous Man4/20/2015, 1:50:55 AM1 votes

Thats not how it works :)