Anti-tank assassin. Good idea? Bad Idea? Best idea?

only zhule·6/4/2015, 6:02:43 PM·2 votes·1,437 views

Was reading a thread and one of the comments got me to thinking. How cool would it be to have an "assassin" character that was build primarily to assassinate tank characters? Like they either do bonus damage to characters with higher max life then them, or passively shred armor/magic resist, do bonus damage based off the opponents bonus armor/MR, perhaps something as simple as ignoring a % of bonus armor/MR while also not suffering the negative effects on hit from stuff like thornmail/ Omen/ etc..

So basically you get a character who is really good at going in and messing up the tank in a team fight, but actually doesn't have a great kit for dealing with more squishy characters (unless they build a lot of sustain).

16 Comments

Reynard the ƒox6/4/2015, 6:12:00 PM3 votes

Darius' entire design is to kill tanks.

Look what he also does to squishies.

Only Play Darius6/4/2015, 6:22:28 PM1 votes

MasterYi is far and away the best assassin to use on tanks. He synergizes extremely well with item 3153, has on-hit true damage, and has nonstop sustained damage output.

A 40 of Oe6/4/2015, 11:37:20 PM1 votes

well the best way to make a champion that could kill tanks but not demolish squishies would probably be a percentage dmg dealing champion, something like Q deals 6/7/8/9/10% of the targets max health y'know? then again tanks are their so u dont wreck them, so tanks can absorb dmg and help their team win teamfights, leading to winning the game. That being said, this champion wouldnt have to be a tank/tank killer, so in that case it could work but that champ would be most focused in teamfights so they dont get their tank killed in 2 seconds. So it could be balanced in a sense

Riely6/5/2015, 1:55:49 AM1 votes

to an extent trundle and elise both kind of fill that role (elise less so but you know)

Blade of Justic6/5/2015, 5:49:55 AM1 votes

Wouldn't Vayne work?

AlphaKappaPika6/5/2015, 5:51:22 AM1 votes

pretty sure that Yasuo with lw does 85% armor pen after he ults. combine that with botrk passive...... pretty sure he is basically a tank assassin late game and even mid game after last whisper.

Svddenly6/4/2015, 6:06:44 PM1 votes

To deal with tanky characters you'd have to deal lots of damage, which would also easily kill squishy champs.

The only way I can see to remedy this is to give bonus damage based off of the target's bonus armor or magic resist and penetrating a percentage of bonus armor or magic resist (depending on the type of damage being dealt).

NuSix36/5/2015, 6:02:54 AM1 votes

Was gonna say Vayne is pretty much the assassin version of marksmans, but then there is also Darius.