Talk:Champion classes/@comment-66.177.229.41-20130319235830/@comment-16064126-20150211010050

The easiest difference to see is the range. Assassins need to be up in your face to deal damage, while if a mage is in your faces they're dead. I won't dip into the AD vs AP, because there are AP assassins. The other major difference is CC vs mobility. Mages usually come eqquped with heavy CC, while Assassins come with mobility to make up for their lack of range, they can get in, snag a kill, get out. Assassins also most of the time have stronger AAs, but that depends.

So melee vs range and mobility vs CC are the biggest differences