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Assassin class update information
Assassin class update information
With Pre-Season approaching, it’s time to revisit and clarify the conversation around the upcoming assassin update. In our last post about Roster Updates, we stressed two goals for the Assassin Updates: push the thematics/play patterns of the individual champions, and increase the overall game health of the class.
A class update isn’t just about crafting a complete experience for the players of a few champions. It’s also important that we bring new functionality to the class as a whole, as well as ensure they have the systemic tools they need to succeed. We’re doing a modernization pass on a number of assassins; think of these like miniature updates. In addition, we’re making sure that assassins have items that suit their class strengths. Finally, we’re revisiting stealth, a mechanic which has traditionally belonged to assassins.
Thematics
As a group, we wanted to make sure assassins lived up to the “skill fantasy”, the idea that assassins are high skill cap champions. Assassins should have the ability to massively outplay their opponents, which also leaves them open to being outplayed. Overall, we want them to have strong success cases, strong failure cases, and clear ways for opponents to attempt to avoid dying.
On an individual level, a number of our assassins already have strong thematic fantasies, so we’re leaning into what exists already to inform their gameplay identities.
Game Health
When we looked at the pool of assassins, one common problem stood out: a lack of meaningful interactivity. It isn’t the damage that is the problem, but the feeling of not having any chance to outplay or even react to them. As a result, fed assassins feel pointless to play against, while trailing assassins feel pointless to play as or with. Ultimately, we want to empower assassin players to be make aggressive, flashy plays (insert Faker vs Ryu joke here), and know they’ve earned it.
We also want to make assassins more fair, which isn’t the same as reducing assassin damage. In some cases, that means giving you more ability to fire back. In other cases, you need to be able to see an assassin coming and try to escape them. We want the Ashe who just got styled on to think “welp, I got outplayed”, not “that was bullshit”.
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A class update isn’t just about crafting a complete experience for the players of a few champions. It’s also important that we bring new functionality to the class as a whole, as well as ensure they have the systemic tools they need to succeed. We’re doing a modernization pass on a number of assassins; think of these like miniature updates. In addition, we’re making sure that assassins have items that suit their class strengths. Finally, we’re revisiting stealth, a mechanic which has traditionally belonged to assassins.
Thematics
As a group, we wanted to make sure assassins lived up to the “skill fantasy”, the idea that assassins are high skill cap champions. Assassins should have the ability to massively outplay their opponents, which also leaves them open to being outplayed. Overall, we want them to have strong success cases, strong failure cases, and clear ways for opponents to attempt to avoid dying.
On an individual level, a number of our assassins already have strong thematic fantasies, so we’re leaning into what exists already to inform their gameplay identities.
Game Health
When we looked at the pool of assassins, one common problem stood out: a lack of meaningful interactivity. It isn’t the damage that is the problem, but the feeling of not having any chance to outplay or even react to them. As a result, fed assassins feel pointless to play against, while trailing assassins feel pointless to play as or with. Ultimately, we want to empower assassin players to be make aggressive, flashy plays (insert Faker vs Ryu joke here), and know they’ve earned it.
We also want to make assassins more fair, which isn’t the same as reducing assassin damage. In some cases, that means giving you more ability to fire back. In other cases, you need to be able to see an assassin coming and try to escape them. We want the Ashe who just got styled on to think “welp, I got outplayed”, not “that was bullshit”.
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Originally Posted by Rem.
