Alright, you had me up until you said "next one to roll out of development."
First off, this sounds almost exactly like Leona's E in terms of mechanics, except for the hooking to walls thing.
Second, "next one to roll out of development." HAHAHAHA. Sorry to laugh at that, but you do know that most champions take minimum 6-8 months to make, right? There was a time when champions were made every 2 weeks, but then they had a whole lot worse design. The results of this are dreams of the Rioters for these champions not quite realized and, often, full VGUs for the champions in the future. Oftentimes, Riot wound up creating a champion that has insane balance issues and they wind up dominating the competitive and normal scene until they get gutted. Urgot and Yorick are very good examples of products of these times. Yorick wasn't inherently busted until the community came up with a certain way to build him and a certain way to do things with him, then he became top tier pick or ban because if he got picked he would hard carry solo no matter how bad that player was, then he got gutted and taken off the free rotation - basically thrown into the garbage for nearly 4 years. Urgot is another good example. He was too strong because he can reduce his opponent's damage while spamming what's basically an Ezreal Q on a lower cooldown that, with E, was targeted and with W slowed. Hit kit seems fairly random, but the interactions between his W+E with his Q make it actually pretty fun and the damage it dealt from so far away was just absurdly busted, he was top tier. And then he again got gutted, lowered basic attack range, lower range on Q, lower damage on Q, again and again until he was just gone from the scene completely. So, yes, each champion takes 6-8 months to make now and most of them are much less toxic for the game as a whole.
As for this assassin update, gotta love a behind Rengar hitting you in the face with a 700 damage Q, amirite?
