Talk:Akali/@comment-5319740-20160902144911/@comment-28977071-20160902155539

I could redirect you to wiki article where this is explained, but that'd be quite bluff from me as I edited it, heh :B

In short, players know that needs not to be assassin at all. Assassin is her attribute:

attribute- an innate/default class natural to the champ (e.g. that assassin)

role- current/actual class of that champ (that is your bruiser for example)

There's technically no need to follow Recommended item set that was created by Rito to ease itemization for new players. Recommended item sets were designed to allow champ to make his attribute into an actual role. The innate role is the easiest to play, hence recommended. But Rito itself stated that you are not supposed to follow those item sets all the time, and it'd be very dumb to do so.

If you want to play champ in other role, you can just make your own item set, or you can just ignore Recommended and manually search all the items. I'm personally using own item sets fully independent of champ identity, just intended for given role. E.g. if I want to play as offtank then, I just switch to Offtank item set^^