Talk:Champion classes/@comment-66.177.229.41-20130319235830

Can someone please explain to me the difference between a mage and an assassin? First of all, understand that I have plenty of knowledge of League of Legends including, but not limited to, champion attribute orientation. Anyways, this question may initially appear to be a rather stupid  frankly, but you must first interpret the contextual understanding of my premise. Let me elaborate: definitively speaking, the two classes are MUCH too similar to be acknowledged as different categories, so let me reiterate the definitions of a mage and an assassin, and correct me if I'm wrong.

Mages - typically champions that are weak in terms of raw health and AD, but make up for it in their shear damage output when it comes to AP.

Assassins - typically champions that are weak in terms of raw health and AD, but make up for it in their shear damage output when it comes to AP or sometimes DPS.

There is also no misconnection between the matter of ranged/melee, as there are as actually a few mages that are melee. Also, the mage exerpt clearly states that there are a foundation of mages called "burst casters/mages," so this is not a unique orientation designated only to assassins apparently. This also means that mages can obviously kill their foes pretty quickly. And another thing is that some champions are actually labeled as being both a mage and an assassin, it's like wtf? Tell me how that's possible. So my question is: is there really a signifacant difference between the two because of a matter of the fact that sometimes assassins can be DPS, to the point that you actually need to design a "new" attribute concept over?