Talk:List of champions/Ratings/@comment-3974211-20170525004842/@comment-24951773-20170526030714

I'm a Nocturne main, and while I agree with you that Nocturne should be considered an assassin, at least thematically, it's interesting to note that Riot excluded him from the assassin class rework explicitly because they considered him, at least at the time, to be a diver, and not an assassin.

Though, in my personal opinion, kit-wise Nocturne is currently somewhere between assassin and diver. If you build damage items on him he can certainly burst down a squishy champ like an assassin can, but he lacks the escape that almost all other assassins have (the only other assassin I can think of that doesn't have an escape is Rengar, assuming he uses his ult to assassinate rather than killing a target and then popping his ult to run away).

Also, as was mentioned on Reddit, I agree that I really like Dota's approach to classifying heroes. http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Role