User blog comment:Megames1/Against the Meta- Assassins & The Fury System/@comment-4881935-20121104150623

I actually wouldn't call Fury a bad system (and in the case weakness you pointed, it was actual stated by Riot, that was how Renekton was supposed to be balanced). The only one who actual suffers from it is Renekton. I think two things they could do for Renekton to improve his flow of using Fury is actual grant him Fury when using his empowered abilities (i mean only for his Q and W), and improve his animation time on W.

Tryndamere actual works well with it as his rage is only used for improving critical chance or heal. His problem is itemization and his idea role is crappy in this stage of the game.

And for that assassin thing. High burst has been phased out in favor of burst+sustain damage. Assassins and burst mage have the exact same issue. Why only play a champion who can only deal one large burst and be useless for a good amount of time when you can play a champion who deals a somewhat weaker burst, but can still put a lot of sustain damage. And the fact that most assassin don't provide much utility in their kit for their team limits their viability.

The only time I see assassin being great is when their burst is so godly high for a short period before that damage is nerf by outcries of people that the assassin is doing their job too well. <--- oh, that actual want to make me say, when an assassin champion do their assassinating job too well, it's really unfun for the enemy player.

On a side note, I never realize that Irelia was an assassin. None of her kit sounds like an assassin.