Assassins: The Most Frustrating Champions In The Game | League Of Legends

Assassins have long held a reputation for being the most frustrating and unpleasant champions to face on the enemy team for their high speed and/or stealth combined with incredible frontloaded damage. Today I wanted to go more in depth on the class to break down how they garnered such a reputation and why it seems to never go away.

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[MAMAJUGO]

How could a character class based entirely around either killing you instantly or dying instantly possibly be frustrating?

[callmeandoru]

Assassins is spelled with an "ass" followed by another "ass."

[alexz]

Dont you just love when someone pops out of nowhere, dashes 300 times to hit you with at least a part of their combo, does your entire hp, and then just teleports back while having given you no time to shoot back?

[scl]

I love that pyke scales with lethality and wish more assassins did too as a way to incentivize proper itemization and not just "hur dur bruiser item talon" (Ik pyke has other issues but even still his lethality scaling aint one of em)

[skeye]

As a Nasus main in low-elo, it's fun to watch assassins do their fancy 10 button combos on me while I just 2-shot them with my Q and heal all my health back.

[BeenanPeenan]

the amount of times ive dodged most of a zed combo to still get kill by deathmark at 70% health had made me consider uninstalling more than once

[yanji]

getting oneshot by assassins as a tank is more than frustrating

[sheepyspeep]

a fed assassin is probably still the most annoying thing, but poke champs are also quite frustrating if your team doesn't have a good way of dealing with them

[orixthesourguy]

i remember when Wukong was very well as an Assasin and used to one shot everything that wasn't tank

[glorytoarstotzka]

imagine if the game had more heroes with anti-dashes such as poppy's W, to counter Assasin's mobility

[Neerra]

The biggest problem i have with assassins right now is that a lot of them dont have the downside of being easily killed, a Zed with Eclipse and Ravenous can face tank a team because of the omnivamp.

[Chesterbiggums]

To be honest, I don’t hate assassins much. My least favorite category of champions is skirmishers. Yone, Yasuo, Master Yi, Tryndamere, Jax, and Fiora are extremely frustrating to play against. Even if you roll them, they can always still beat you down after getting an item or two.

[juderamsaywak]

I will say, if it wasn't for my hatred for assassins, I would've never learned how fun vex and lissandra are for me to play

[alliu]

I think aside from Yuumi, assassins are the next most commonly hated champs lol and surprisingly it’s for similar reasons: you have no opportunity to strike back at them

[MrReaperHand]

No other class is more frustrating than assassins. This is because of many reasons mentioned here, but almost every assassin has either a point an click ability (that often allows them to engage target) or an empowered auto attack with an attack reset that drastically improves how much damage that hits. I would need to sit down an go through them to find one that does not have either of these, but this means they have 1 ability at least that can NEVER miss that does a butt load of damage.

[chrs-wltrs]

I'm reminded of a clip where a fed Rengar slaughtered Tyler1 in 0.18 sec. Estimates for average human reaction time are 0.2-0.25 seconds 😂

[briargray]

Big agree. I'd also place an emphatic note on how they're broadly supposed to be single target. However I've seen many just...walk into a 5 stack and 1v5 and walk out with half their health intact. Like that just shouldn't be a thing.

[mido]

playing Shen in the mid-lane: "Oh it's a Zed, guess it's time to make someone rage quit"

[SappyEuphoria]

I’m not sure if I’m the only one but I love how the gameplay looks in this video and the circles around the champs looks super cool

[Mickerson]

assassins are so hard to balance is basically every single game that has them. They are either super OP and dominate everything or they are took weak to be viable, but you will still see them every now and then coming to 1 shot you and make you feel hopeless.
assassins are too all or nothing. their either 1 shot u or they die, its basically impossible to balance a good ratio between these 2.