It's extremely useless compare to other synergies a unit without assassin synergy considering its crit change averagely deals 0.251.5+0.75 = 112.5% of its base dmg while with 3 assassin's synergy it deals 0.352+0.65=135% of its base dmg it's only like 20% extra damage, plus no two assassin share the same trait besides infernal qiyana and diana, as a result, no one plays assassins
someones forgetting blender comp
The passive effect for assassins (jumping onto the backline) is strong enough to justify having the assassin trait by itself, not to mention some of the higher-tiered assassins have some form of innate synergy with the trait bonuses (Nocturne hits multiple enemies for multiple potential crits, Kha'zix has a guaranteed crit after his ability, Zed's shadows can crit, etc).
yea, after all the nerfs, the 3 assasin syneergie feels pretty usless. The main issue is how it interacts with IE, especially one stacks 2 IEs. But instead of nerfing the abomination that is IE(and finally makeing item effects unique to stop stacking), they gut the assasins trade. Now nocturn got nerfed aswell and assasins overall are pretty usless.
Imo crit never was a fitting bonus to begin with, it's just an overall dps boost that enabled assasins to bust tanks wehnever it was strong. Imo The assasin bonus should be hybrid flat pen, so spell based assasins gain more from it and it works better at deleteing squishys than busting tanks.
The problem with the assassin synergy is that there's literally no reason to ever run 6 assassins, let alone be able to.
As for the 3 assassin synergy, that HAS to be weak specifically because of Blender comp, which kinda forces the trait to only be used in that one specific comp when combined with the former reasoning.
I think right now it's got more potential that you think...but it's really awkward. You'd need to basically push Electric/Lunar/Assassin...and even then, that's really pushing it. Cause for electric to be worth it you'd need to make Voli into an assassin so you can pick up Ornn for 3 electric...or find specifically Electric Lux.
That's pretty much the only way to make the 6 assassin strat hurt heavily enough right now, outside of blender.
Objectively speaking, assassins are an inherent design flaw & should've been removed in Season 2 alongside glacials. So long as they're allowed to break the rules of the game by being untargetable & bming the enemy backline, they will remain unbalanceable.
