Friday, 6 February 2015

Is Riot killing all the mid lane assassin


Guys I don't know if you are aware (probably are) but this new patch (5.2) really hit three of my favourite mid lane assassin very hard. ZED, AKALI AND FIZZ !!!!! 

  Akali
original skin 
Crescent Slash (E): Crescent Slash no longer detonates Mark of the Assassin
Shadow Dance (R): RANGE 800  700

I can sort of agree with the changes in her ultimate (R) because once she is feed, she can fly and snowball the whole game.

Now to my second point which really annoyed me, changes to her (E). if you main Akali then you know her combo is Q wait a bit then R, Q and E = dead squashy champions. now not being able to detonate mark of assassin using your E means you just cant kill champions as quick, also removal of death fire grasp makes things even worse.

  Zed
original skin

BASE ATTACK SPEED : 0.658  0.644ATTACK SPEED GROWTH STArt : 3.1  2.1

Now it may not look that bad on first glance but if you think about it, ZED is one of the best champion for split push because he can destroy  turrets extremely quick, but now its very hard to do this. I think riot is trying to make ZED into a caster assassin who uses his abilities to kill rather then auto attacks. I think people need to think of new builds that gives him large damage rather then attack speed. 

  Fizz 
original skin
Urchin Strike (Q) DAMAGE : 10/40/70/100/130 (+0.6 ability power) magic damage 10/25/40/55/70 (+0.3 ability power) magic damage
Seastone Trident (E) No longer applies Grievous Wounds (ACTIVE ON-HIT DAMAGe) : 10/15/20/25/30 (+0.25 ability power) magic damage  10/20/30/40/50 (+0.0 ability power) + 4/5/6/7/8% missing health as magic damage. PASSIVE DAMAGE OVER 3 SECONDS : 30/40/50/60/70 (+0.35 ability power) (+4/5/6/7/8% of target's missing health) over 3 seconds 20/30/40/50/60 (+0.45 ability power) over 3 seconds
what did this little fish do to Riot, look at the huge nerf they made to his kit. First his Q Riot almost half the damage which means he is more reliant on his ultimate to do the damage. NOW look at his E omg its so bad, overall its a lot weaker. if you ever played fizz you know that his laning phase is one of the worst. not being able to apply grievous wounds his laning phase just got even weaker. if ur not fremilier with fizz's previous E, grievous wounds would bleed enemy champions and minions also it scaled up with AP. this means fizz has lost one of his main damage source other then his R. furthermore fizz is a very difficult champion to play with, that's why i wont recommend this champion to new league of legends players because you will just die without dealing any damage.
So guys let me know what you think of the changes. which assassin would you pick for mid lane, and leave you comment. Request for any area you would like me to go over. 

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