Is Assassin going to get nerfed?

This. Scathis knows what he's doing and he won't change a thing unless he's convinced it is necessary.
I trust in his judgment (and will keep complaining anyway, because that's part of the game...)

My prediction is that Assassin players don't have to worry atm.

The only thing that I think needs to be nerfed is the damage decrease when you grapple someone, it blocks too much damamge and as an assassin it can be pretty easy to hit and run right infront of 2-3 pros without much of a problem, which promotes bad gameplay and
bad assassins

all right, im back with a little more experience i can say that gunners werent as difficult as i thought. the massive damage + the stun still makes it a problem. also as the previous poster said, i too tend to run away from tanks.

in the right hands, the assasin is VERY deadly, it is very balanced atm. if any other class fans have anything to say about this, please post.


ps. i dont want a rant/flame reply. stick to constructive.

I could see a nerf against towers... but honestly if they were made any weaker than they are I would be mad. I faceroll them as it is

Yes nerf. as a maxed out Gunner, I went toe to toe with the Assassin, me shooting a gun, her throwing stars.. She wiped me out in a few hits... ridiculous.

At what range?

You're doing it wrong then. Gunner is the king for killing pro's. You just missed i bet.

Yeah I don't really see how this could happen, unless you were already damaged and she were overhealed, or it was long range or she was shooting around a corner or something. This coming from a dude who plays gunner.

As someone who has almost exclusively played Support, I don't think Assassins need a nerf.

Their Pro-killing ability seems about right. If they get the jump on me it's either my fault or them taking advantage of a situation like they're supposed to. They're fragile as hell and only deadly when they get the jump on you.

Their base-killing ability I do find annoying, but it's up there with juiced Gunners and Tanks. There are times when I think turrets could use a little buff but I don't know if that's just my own personal bias.

Unless you were on the complete opposite side of the map from her, you must have abysmal aim.

Only thing that needs to be changed about the assassin is the facegrapple damage, needs to be lowered. Everything else is fine.

Most assassins are annoying till you learn how to deal with them, then suddenly they're much more manageable. Then there are the sneaky bastards that never show up till you're busy with something else.

As far as base killing goes, a support that actually heals chip damage done to turrets and a shaveice on each side are AMAZING at marginalizing assassin damage. If they juice, gunner slam and assault charge-grapple are great at pushing them away from their objective. It's just that none of these are obvious, or directly rewarded.

Havent played enough since the recent assassin nerf, but anyone that feels the assassin didnt need to be nerfed before that has rocks in their head. The issue with assassins (prior patch at least) is that theyre great at everything that matters: killing bots, pushing lanes, killing pros, killing turrets, gaining juice, getting to the annihilator etc.

assassins turn the chess game into checkers.
selfishly upgrade all your skills, then go on a
spamfest rampage destroying all enemy sentries
and medics. bots in secs, seems rather weighted.

we should be able to use the ice/slowing effects
outside the inner base. this would even things
out and they can keep their fingers on the spam
button.

lvl 1 and 2 need a bit of an upgrade on the slow
effect. 2 needs to allow everyone to escape at least.
level 3 should be a hold, frozen in place for a trap.

There are sentries in this game?

"we should be able to use the ice/slowing effects
outside the inner base."
There is. Sniper's Ice Traps. Also if you escort your bots you would in-turn stop or make it harder for Assassins to juice.

I have no seen any solid evidence one way or another that the Assassin needs any kind of immediate change.

after all that you get a jackass with this?

turrets, sentries, guns, bang bang things. whatever man, come on.

ice turret?

I think you are referring to the Supports firebase?
:ugeek:

wow this the best you got? no wonder the servers are lacking. hmmm.
initial sales decent? return players? let's talk in a few weeks. then we
can see exactly what i'm referring to. good day.

360 version still going strong after 6 months?