Talk:Ekko/@comment-25967446-20150513195512/@comment-3308937-20150514041736

To tag onto Empty's post:

Out of the original 40 champs only 2 could really be classified as primarily assassins: Eve and Shaco. The things that made them assassins were their:

1. Accessibility to the enemy back line (Shaco Q, Eve stealth) 2. Ability to do a high amount of damage in a short amount of time (read: not instantly) (Shaco's passive damage boost, Q's crit, E's passive poison, R's autos, Eve's armor shred, low CD Q, and attack speed steroid) 3. Ability to deflect or prevent damage (Shaco ult, box, and %chance blind, Eve's stun and turret/minion preventing passive) 4. Ability to disengage after their job was done (Shaco Q and boxes, Eve's ult health restore and movement speed steroid on kill)

100-0'ing a target in a spell combo is not what makes an assassin, which is why we see auto attack steroids/benefits on Akali, Talon, Fizz, and Zed.

LeBlanc and Katarina are weird because of their mage attributes, as Empty pointed out. LeBlanc's mage portion being her damage window duration and Kat's being her amount of instant AoE damage. LeBlanc used to be more utility oriented with Q's silence and E's 2 second tether duration while Kat used to be less reset-focused and more about landing a huge, full channel ult due to weaker basic skills. If Riot would've stuck to the already existing formula instead of trying to make them a fun mix of mage and assassin they probably wouldn't be as big of a problem as they are now.