Talk:Skarner/@comment-24486730-20141102021526/@comment-1330314-20141119160425

is also listed as an assassin, despite the fact that her early game damage is nowhere near good enough to let her assassinate anyone. She, and  are listed as assassins because their DPS scales so well into the late game that it equates to the burst of a lot of other champions, including assassins. They are not, however, assassins.

I'd say their classification is fairly irrelevant, since the current system doesn't differentiate melee light fighters (i.e. Yasuo and Yi) from bruisers (tanky fighters like or ). Perhaps once the melee carry role gets fleshed out more we'll see them get their own classification, but otherwise it's generally not the best idea to rely purely on a champion's tags to define them.