Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-4659726-20121108062055/@comment-3238314-20121108150954

I'm actually rather thrilled that Riot is releasing so many assassins. Gameplay was very stale before more options for assassins were released, being completely focused around farming for 20 minutes before anything big really happens. Since assassins are built to be able to snowball from early on, they enable aggressive play from very early stages of the game, as we've seen in the past games from the koreans. It forces a bit of adaptation.

We already have tons of the other champ types, TONS. Assassins, not all that many. And if you're gonna argue that supports are even fewer, i'm gonna have to say that:

1) Supports bring tons of utility, as they're supposed to be useful with few items, and so are hard to design, in the current meta

2) Riot mentioned that they want to rework the bot support gameplay, so that supports can buy more items, and so on. it's not very intuitive to release many supports if you have to rebalance their stats so soon after they come out. Besides, one of the next 3 champs after zed is a support, so...