Breaking News: Exclusive Review: "Assassin" Items Reveal Hidden Powers at 14.19 AD
Date: March 20, 2023
The wait is finally over as the highly-anticipated 14.19 AD patch has been rolled out, bringing with it a treasure trove of new Assassin items. The update promises to shake things up in the world of battle royale, with devastating effects and surprising upgrades waiting to be discovered.
As we dive into this exciting review, we’re exploring the top Assassin items you won’t want to miss in the 14.19 AD patch.
Featured Items:
- Dark Edge (Assassin Chestpiece) – Unlocked the secret to mastering darkness itself. This item enables stealth attacks, increases agility, and provides bonus healing for assassins.
"The Dark Edge is a total game-changer. Sneak attacks have never felt more potent, and that increased agility is a gift to those who know how to utilize it." – Jaxon
- Shadow Strike (Assassin Backpack) – Perfect for ambushing your opponents, this bag imbues your allies with shadowy powers. Empowering those around you is an instant win in high-stakes battles.
"Just received Shadow Strike, and the support it offers my squad has been astronomical! Winning has never felt easier." – AeroStar
- Noxious Fang (Assassin Gauntlets) – Bite into victory with the Noxious Fang. Not only does this hand-worn gear heal for increased damage taken but also converts a portion of health back into damage points. Insane, we say!
"The Noxious Fang is a godsend! Worrying less about HP and focusing more on takedowns – blissful." – Apex
Community Insights:
Players can’t stop raving about these fresh Assassin items!
"Aww, yeah, those noxious fangs give me the power! Kites are now child’s play" – @NikkoR1pS
"The speed of those Dark Edge stabs… I can sneak behind 5 opponents undetected" – @Bl0odStReE7
Don’t miss this chance to amplify your game with these devastating new items! The road to dominance has never looked so appealing.
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How are AD assassins doing this patch? Let’s look at the changes and consider if they are hitting the stated goals.
This is the outline for the changes we were given in the patch notes:
We can see they stated they wanted to primarily nerf Assassins through haste, recognizing that they need to be able to kill a target quickly and avoid retaliation. Is this what happened?
Umbral Glaive, Voltaic Cyclosword, Hubris, Profane Hydra and Axiom Arc lost haste. So far so good.
Hydra was nerfed down to an 80% AD ratio from 100/130. This is a large damage nerf, but was probably warranted considering how much of an outlier it was in terms of strength. They have also stated they wanted to focus on “playing the champion, not playing the item,” and this is consistent with that.
If that was the end, then perhaps: mission accomplished. But it didn’t stop there. Voltaic Cyclosword and Youmuu’s Ghostblade increased in cost by 100g, Edge of Night by 200g. This is essentially a 3, 6 AD nerf before full build.
Opportunity Lost 5 AD and up to 3 Lethality.
But perhaps the biggest loser of all, Serylda’s Grudge:
Its 15 Lethality was removed completely and its full build Armor Penetration went down, not up, by about 5%. On first glance, it got 3 compensation buffs:
Cost down by 200g
Base Armor Pen up 5%
AH up 5
The cost reduction is valuable (6 AD) if you buy it early, but as a % Pen item, it’s tilted towards a later purchase. At full build, the price doesn’t matter.
The base armor pen is up by 5%, but even in isolation that’s overselling it because it gained 1.6% from its own Lethality before. If you had 2 other Lethality items, it was already over 30%. Full build it was around 35% depending on what exactly you built.
Looking over the totality of these changes, it looks the nerfs were just as focused on damage as they were on haste.
If this is the goal, the cost of items should be going down, not up. Cheap, early power spikes that get outscaled by more expensive Marksmen/Mage/Bruiser items in a full build.
Increasing the cost of items tilts them to late game and theoretically improves their “slot efficiency” when holding gold efficiency constant.
As an addendum let’s take a look at Eclipse:
While it deserved nerfs like any other item, the scale is clearly off. It’s total relative gold value decreased by 450 which is 14-16% depending on how you calculate it:
This is out of line from the stated range:
We can also see it’s win rate suffered the most among the most popular items:
This is especially concerning because it also lost win rate. Most of the items that lost win rate, gained pick rate, which is somewhat causal (items bought more frequently are bought earlier, which always have lower win rates than items bought later).
It now features one of only 5 negative win rates in the game:
References:
https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/patch-14-19-notes/
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No shit Sherlock
We were ass before the patch, and after we are worse
Eclipse wasn’t really an assassin item for a while now, it’s passive makes zero sense on them, they only build it because it was completely overtuned – and it was nerfed so hard for the very same reason.
The only really concerning change is Grudge IMO, previous iteration was a fuked design trying to squeeze too many identities into one item, but now that it is more focused ass assins don’t really have enough penetration late.