Talk:Champion classes/@comment-66.177.229.41-20130319235830/@comment-10428734-20131008172916

An assassin is a champion that goes in melee range to kill a precise target as fast as possible and then usually has to get away asap.

You deal most of your damage from long distance? You are a mage. You deal mostly AoE damage? You are a mage. You deal mostly DoT damage? You are a mage. You don't have a gap closer? You are a mage.

There is no AD/AP difference. Some assassins are AP (Akali, Katarina, Fizz, LB) while some AD, albeit rare, can be mages with a particular build (MF with a full AD caster build, Urgot too). The reason why AD mages are almost inexistant is because when you are both AD and ranged, why not just build ADC? A true AD mage would be a melee champion without gap closer but with high AD scaling ranged abilities. Think a Gragas that would scale with AD. Deals 90% of his damage from distance and only goes melee to finish people when the fight is over.