User blog comment:Slashingstrike/Nerante - the Devil Hunter/@comment-25235491-20161123164446/@comment-27802145-20161127044537

Clay, you are making a big mistake when you say Fighters are not meant to have lots of AoE. Even the very examples you've given, save for Fiora, have AoE abilities as their primary damage source, along with their AAs (and yes, Yasuo does have other AoEs, such as his Q which has a minimal CD of 1.3 seconds).

As for Talon, his AoE remains as was before the update aside from number changes. In fact, all of those who received major updates either had thier AoE potential upped or maintained (note Rengar and Kat).

Also high costs =/= assassin. High burst potential with prolonged CDs = assassin. To promote a champion to play as a Fighter class, all that is needed is to spread out the champion's damage over a longer period of time, in which Nerante's innate does achieve, to some extent. Fighters are meant to have incentive to stay in fights, whilst assassins aren't, which is exactly why the Rengar update is a blunder with the decaying Ferocity, and %damage taken heal on W.