User blog comment:LivesByProxy/A Fool's Hope: The Case For A Support Shaco/@comment-5035765-20151001195710/@comment-5035765-20151003015124

my concern is that the Assassin class is mostly about dealing burst damage (which is how Xerath is one, yet something like Ezreal is not), while the support class is about making it easier for others to deal damage. Mixing those two (Burst and CC/heals) is really really REALLY hard, leading to things like Nid and Ekko (or hell, any of the Assassins who used to have silences like Talon or Kass). This is why assassins tend to have either soft CC or heavily gated/supposedly difficult to land hard CC, which makes them hard to support with (again, barring Nid, who's just BS in general, and Ekko, who supposedly has noticeably less damage than other assassins).

it just feels that it'd be something that'd be like how Morde bot is now... Removing a thing that kept them from a position before, but they were kept out because they'd force others to play around them