User blog comment:Megames1/Against the Meta- Assassins & The Fury System/@comment-5194571-20121104154117

Lee Sin is listed in the game as an assasin, yet he has tons of mobility, (a gapcloser and gapcreator), a lot of brust damage, tankiness from his shield and general build style, sustain from his W and anti-peeling with his ult. What then? Notice how popular he is compared to say... Leblanc?

Though to be honest, I think assasins are misunderstood. Take Leblanc for example as I know her best. She snowballs hard early/mid game but falls off late, right? No. Leblanc snowballs early/mid and rounds out to an acceptable level late. Many people see her single-target nature as a weakness. Wrong. You use that and make it a strength. Waiting for a teamfight? Flank round to the side of the enemy team, out of sight. Wait for the initiation from the enemy team, thinking it's a 5v4. THEN, go in, kill the carry in 2 seconds flat. And jump right back out. Sure, damage-wise you are useless for a few seconds, but that is, in itself, a strength. You may have no damage for 15 seconds, but you do have a health bar. You can bait the now angry enemy team, you can run back to your carry and bodyblock skillshots etc. Use your health bar and your sprite as a weapon in that down time, not your kit. If you die, no problem, you did your job anyway. And you protected your carry for a while to boot. If you don't and your burst come back up again then great, do another magic trick and make someone else's life bar disappear.

"Oh no! They got MR! MR ruins everything!" Pfft. Void Staff exists for a reason. High base damages exist for a reason. If you don't get the kill that's fine. Forcing them out of the fight with only 100 health left is fine too. Better than them staying in. You still did your job to an extent.

The problem with assasins (and junglers, actually) at this point in time is the mindset of the players. Everything has to end in a kill or it's a failure and you suck. Forced the enemy to burn Flash and Heal? Good. Come back later. Or not, fail gank and you suck according to your own ally. Don't bother ganking that lane again, they'll just not bother because you suck and can't do anything anyway. There's a reason I stopped playing Trundle in the jungle. It's because everyone loves champions with escapes. Trundle needs to be in melee range to do anything. He gets screwed over by escapes. Morg just Black Shield and walk right around your pillar? You suck. Thank the heavens he's so good top lane. Same logic applies to assasins. Died in a teamfight and didn't get a kill? You suck. They only had 50 health left, but you suck, because you died and they didn't. It's this mindset of "I want damage, I want kills. Anything not resulting in a kill is a failure" that ruins stuff. Darius exists for a reason. I'm not complaining, but he does, if you see what I'm hinting at.

As for Fury, I have no complaints. Renekton is fun as hell. Especially in lane BECAUSE of the Fury system. Tryndamere is some of the most epic bait pre-6 BECAUSE of Fury. Shyvana's the only one I'm not so interested in. I just think of Shyvana ult like Singed ult. Epic defensive steroid for a limited time. Except she is nowhere near as epic as Singed, and never will be. Dragon form only lasts a few seconds, but you initiated and got really tanky. You did your job, regardless of the duration not lasting long because Fury decays over time. It's as if she doesn't even have Fury to begin with.

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