Talk:Talon/@comment-24704296-20140627200416/@comment-24036535-20140630152141

Assassinns are definitely meant to have counterplay, otherwise the game would be run by assassins. Healer like Soraka, or supports with immense peel, like Thresh or Janna can easily counter assassins and make killing their target very hard. Zed for instance has a lot of counterplay, just getting a QSS or Zhonya's can negate over a 1/3 of his burst.

The problem with a champion that has no counterplay, is that they are pretty anti-fun. There is nothing which could be done by the victim to prevent being killed, and they have almost no chance of revenge either. Or, the assassin gets caught out, and dies to someone like a bruiser, without accomplishing their job properly, or they fail to GET to their target in a teamfight, in which case the battle was essentially a 4v5.