Alright so I'm gonna clear up some misconceptions and list some things that people aren't talking enough about: 1) She is not a 1v5 champ. This is a traditional assassin through and through. Don't expect lots of multikills when you play this character, especially vs players that have actual braincells (unlike PBE players). She kills isolated squishy targets. That's it. 2) Her Q damage when you don't hit both Qs is honestly really pathetic. If you miss the 2nd Q, expect your target not to die. Her W damage is really low and her E damage is *fine* but it's never gonna kill on its own. The execute damage on the Q only happens when both Qs are hit and it's not an easy ability to hit (build Seryulda's on her every game btw), which leads me to point 3. 3) She's not easy to play. The combos are probably the simplest out of any assassin in the game but you CANNOT miss either of her Q skillshots and she has way too much counterplay. The W can be bodyblocked, the E can be dashed or flashed out of and since she always wants to land on top of you with the E you can always predict where she's going. Her mobility is low compared to Zed, Akali, LeBlanc, Talon...literally any other assassin. She's really telegraphed. Her one-shots are slow compared to other assassins because all her damage is backloaded into the 2nd Q and not frontloaded. She loses just as hard to the anti-assassin items (zhonyas, GA, Tabis) as other assassins if not more and teamfights worse as well because she can't play like a mage the way Zed does with spamming shadows and shurikens or invis into a teamfight like Talon does. She doesn't have the tools that other assassins have to play teamfights, and also her outplay potential is really low comparatively. She doesn't even get a slow on her first Q to help land the 2nd one. Her splitpushing is mid because the dogs don't do a lot of turret damage. TLDR her kit feels incomplete or just not that great compared to other assassins and she's only really threatening when already snowballing. 4) She only resets her ult effects on the FIRST champion takedown. You don't reset after every kill like normal reset champs and she has worse survivability than other assassins. So again, not a 1v5 champ. 5) She has absolutely nothing in her kit that is unfair. She's a 2023 champ with no random true damage in her kit, or random hybrid scaling, or infinite dashes, or reviving your whole team randomly on kill, no random infinite stacking damage or attack speed, no random bursts of healing or killing you across the screen like aphelios in ways that you didn't even really understand... She's just a normal champion, the first normal champion that riot releases in *years*. Her W dash has a pretty long range later in the game but the damage is weak and she has unbelievable amounts of counterplay (it can literally be bodyblocked for some reason) that it's not even close to unfair. Anyone is free to try her and play her but don't expect it to feel broken, because it's not. This is not me being negative about the rework. I'm probably gonna one-trick this champ iibh because I like her playstyle, even if she's not broken. I just want to be real for a second and let people know what she's *actually* like. If anything she's underpowered on PBE right now (again, compared to *other champions*) and people should only really be wanting to play her because it fits their playstyle, not because it's broken. If you just want to abuse Riot's next broken champion release in solo queue, I'm sorry but this ain't it right now and I'm a little sick of people pretending she's OP.
Yup, the q dmg split def feels weird, and you realize she isn't 1v5 the second you load into 2v2v2v2 and the enemy team has a top laner 😂... I'm also glad you say seryldas is good because I've been super tempted to build it just so q slows lmao
@@RoasttBeef Sucks even more than top laners are often the ones isolating themselves so it'd be great if she had some sort of true damage or way to duel bruisers.
3) her slow isn’t on her q your right, but she does have one on her w. I think she’ll excel as a side laner after the mid game when she’s got less opportunity Edit: also her w is amazing counter to the infinite dash and dash length in the game. It’s nearly impossible to get away from dog friend if you’re alone
Alright so I'm gonna clear up some misconceptions and list some things that people aren't talking enough about:
1) She is not a 1v5 champ. This is a traditional assassin through and through. Don't expect lots of multikills when you play this character, especially vs players that have actual braincells (unlike PBE players). She kills isolated squishy targets. That's it.
2) Her Q damage when you don't hit both Qs is honestly really pathetic. If you miss the 2nd Q, expect your target not to die. Her W damage is really low and her E damage is *fine* but it's never gonna kill on its own. The execute damage on the Q only happens when both Qs are hit and it's not an easy ability to hit (build Seryulda's on her every game btw), which leads me to point 3.
3) She's not easy to play. The combos are probably the simplest out of any assassin in the game but you CANNOT miss either of her Q skillshots and she has way too much counterplay. The W can be bodyblocked, the E can be dashed or flashed out of and since she always wants to land on top of you with the E you can always predict where she's going. Her mobility is low compared to Zed, Akali, LeBlanc, Talon...literally any other assassin. She's really telegraphed. Her one-shots are slow compared to other assassins because all her damage is backloaded into the 2nd Q and not frontloaded. She loses just as hard to the anti-assassin items (zhonyas, GA, Tabis) as other assassins if not more and teamfights worse as well because she can't play like a mage the way Zed does with spamming shadows and shurikens or invis into a teamfight like Talon does. She doesn't have the tools that other assassins have to play teamfights, and also her outplay potential is really low comparatively. She doesn't even get a slow on her first Q to help land the 2nd one. Her splitpushing is mid because the dogs don't do a lot of turret damage. TLDR her kit feels incomplete or just not that great compared to other assassins and she's only really threatening when already snowballing.
4) She only resets her ult effects on the FIRST champion takedown. You don't reset after every kill like normal reset champs and she has worse survivability than other assassins. So again, not a 1v5 champ.
5) She has absolutely nothing in her kit that is unfair. She's a 2023 champ with no random true damage in her kit, or random hybrid scaling, or infinite dashes, or reviving your whole team randomly on kill, no random infinite stacking damage or attack speed, no random bursts of healing or killing you across the screen like aphelios in ways that you didn't even really understand... She's just a normal champion, the first normal champion that riot releases in *years*. Her W dash has a pretty long range later in the game but the damage is weak and she has unbelievable amounts of counterplay (it can literally be bodyblocked for some reason) that it's not even close to unfair. Anyone is free to try her and play her but don't expect it to feel broken, because it's not.
This is not me being negative about the rework. I'm probably gonna one-trick this champ iibh because I like her playstyle, even if she's not broken. I just want to be real for a second and let people know what she's *actually* like. If anything she's underpowered on PBE right now (again, compared to *other champions*) and people should only really be wanting to play her because it fits their playstyle, not because it's broken. If you just want to abuse Riot's next broken champion release in solo queue, I'm sorry but this ain't it right now and I'm a little sick of people pretending she's OP.
Yup, the q dmg split def feels weird, and you realize she isn't 1v5 the second you load into 2v2v2v2 and the enemy team has a top laner 😂... I'm also glad you say seryldas is good because I've been super tempted to build it just so q slows lmao
@@RoasttBeef Sucks even more than top laners are often the ones isolating themselves so it'd be great if she had some sort of true damage or way to duel bruisers.
Yeah, if the q gave move speed or a slow on the first hit it would help so much with spacing... We'll see!
3) her slow isn’t on her q your right, but she does have one on her w. I think she’ll excel as a side laner after the mid game when she’s got less opportunity
Edit: also her w is amazing counter to the infinite dash and dash length in the game. It’s nearly impossible to get away from dog friend if you’re alone