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Assassin Comp Rush Experiment

AuronRoo·7/14/2019, 10:14:45 PM·2 votes·1,415 views

Assassins are busted. In an effort to prove just that I conducted an 8 game experiment. I rushed an assassin comp every game for 15 games.

While the results vary one thing was clear, when ranked comes out this is about the most mindless way one will be able to climb, by needing a top 4 finish to gain LP, with assassins in their current state. Based on the 9.14 patch updates it wont be changing in the immediate future.

I did not keep track of the item drops, how many 1-3 star champs, though I do believe all games had at least all 2-star assassins, what particular champs I ended up with or what combination of the 7 assassins I got. Why? Because there is going to be no consistency with this from one game to the next. The only constant is the assassin comp.

The results: Game 1 - 1st - 6 Assassins Game 2 - 4th - 6 Game 3 - 4th -6 Game 4 - 2nd - 7 Game 5 - 3rd - 6 Game 6 - 5th - 4 Game 7 - 2nd - 6 Game 8 - 1st - 7 Game 9 - 2nd - 6 Game 10 - 1st -6 Game 11- 1st -6 Game 12 -2nd -6 Game 13- 2nd -6 Game 14- 2nd -6 Game 15- 2nd - 6

As you can see if you get 6 assassins, which also clearly isn't that hard to do you will most likely place. In my 8 game experiment, it happened 100% of the time. Yes, there is a strategy I implement that usually allows me to get 6 assassins, in this case 7 of 8 times. But what I have found allows for so many placements is the low tier threshold to get to the first 3 assassins and that 150% crit bonus, the fact that you can do very well with no 3 stars, and usually almost always end up top 2 if you manage 2 or more 3 stars which I'm pretty sure was the case in my experiment. You also dont need to try and get alot of champs 6-7 seemed more than adequate because of that stupid 350% crit bonus, because of the crit bonus you can get away with not having many items, you can usually even up the match very quickly when out numbered if you can manage 1-2 zephyrs which seems downright broken when you are deleting one or two enemy champs before the tornados drop the cced ones. It allows you to go deeper into games and find 6 of the 7 assassins. You also aren't running into nearly the same issues you would with other comps when managing your bench looking for so many different champs to make a more diverse comp. The management of the game economy is also almost a non-factor with just a couple of minor considerations, particularly with levels 4 and 5.

Bottom Line is that no other comp or strat I have tried to implement so far has been this consistent in getting the desired comp and getting top 4 finishes.

7 Comments

Jerry SeinfeId7/14/2019, 10:36:05 PM1 votes

i've been mainly playing assassins since day 3. They're good but fall apart incredibly easily and are really only good because they're gonna get you top 4 almost guaranteed.

Personally i recommend going Assassins + darius. This will give you the imperial buff thanks to kata. The main reason however is that stacking gets fucked once there's one unit at the backline that their whole frontline runs at, opening spots in the back.

Yordle comp is coinflip as to who wins and requires quite some units on the enemy team so while it works fine, it can lose to you. 1 Phantom dancer alone on a beefy unit like darius or garen will destroy the comp. Suddenly every hit will crit which would be good if it didn't meant you're missing. While zephyr is incredibly nice as an assassin comp, this usually fucks over my strat as it will always target the darius allowing stacking at which point you have to mow down their whole team front to back.

So while i'll agree it's a solid comp for consistency (and idk how ranked in this will work so that might be great) but i also think it's countered so easily. They're consistent at getting top 4, but if there's one player paying attention you're fucked.

as a fun sidenote: try getting youmous aatrox, it's pretty neat.

Panthaz897/14/2019, 11:40:27 PM1 votes

I agree they are the 2nd best in the game behind a good glacial mix but are much easier to build because Glacial builds have to have Ashe(2 star minimum) and Sejuani to deal enough CC. Both crit bonus have to be nerfed especially the 6 bonus. While they obviously have counters they usually don't pop up until Assassin already secured a place in the top 4 because they crush the people without it and Kha Zix Isolation dmg bonus is just insane early game to the point where good players are placing their comps just to avoid getting hit by a Kha'Zix isolation hit which hits way harder than necessary and is actually quite ridiculous with spell damage boosts.

AuronRoo7/17/2019, 2:53:37 AM1 votes

Updated from 8 games played to 15. Yep, still broken AF.