Talk:Ahri/@comment-25620056-20160121041613/@comment-3463132-20160130180042

A lot of Mages get Assassin as a secondary because there's nothing else for them to have.

Tank/Fighter? Nope- no natural scaling defenses and they definitely aren't meant to be bruisers.

Marksman/Support? Marksman is laughable unless you're breaking the meta and most Mages don't have any sort of ability to aid allies to qualify as Support- exempting the ones who can indeed do that - who are then given the Support secondary.

That leaves Assassin for the secondary- because they can burst a target like an Assassin- but from range.