Assassin: a decent strategy and endorsement

Endorsements
Gold - Juice
silver - armor
bronze - rate of fire

With this particular strategy, focus is on killing bots and getting that juice meter up, not that killing strays and targets of opportunity are forbidden in this build tho. You'll find that with gold juice your meter goes up very fast you only have to kill a few waves of bots and it'll be full, silver armor for survivability which is really needed with assassin. bronze rate of fire, your choice really but i like the extra hits though.

Strategy
Farming! be constantly active, seeking bots to kill, try not waste time stalking people waiting in your cloak or chasing someone whos retreating to the safety of a firebase :/
game start - alot of players tend to spend a little too much time choosing their starting chars/skills, as such, if you immediatley sprint/rb dash to their base without wasting anytime at all on skill choice you can make it there before any bots are spawned and, if youre lucky, before any turrets have been placed. You can catch people completely off guard here for an easy kill.
spend time early game killing bots, they net you lots of cash and help build your juice meter. if you manage to survive before you get your first $400 skill, you'll probnably have a full juice meter ready to take out the first few turrets.

Skill order:
Assassin lvl 2
Assassin lvl 3
cloak lvl 2
dash lvl 2
blind lvl 2
you dont need any skill, other than your passive, at lvl 3
Spend the rest of your cash on juice, or maybe turrets, depending on how good your team are doing.

When youre juiced you can take out 3 turrets on one side all by yourself, you can then wait by bot spawning area and work backwards to your bot frontline, harassing or killing anyone on their own using grapple/cloak to stop turrets/bots firing at you mid grapple.

Your main focus in this strategy is killing turrets and bots, your kill count comes from being juiced and late game spending money on juice will mean you'll be killing alot of people.

Assassin tips n tricks
-as stated above, you can cloak whilst grappling, this can be very useful as it stops turrets/bots attacking you mid grapple.
-RB dashing from a platform will let you cover alot of ground instantly.
-Firing your shuriken launchers from cloak(lvl 3) will make the entire clip critical hit
-jumping right after a smoke bomb will launch you very high
-you can grapple after an rb dash attack without waiting for any delay, you can kill unarmored gunners from the front using this technique.
-armor endorsement silver is enough to survive a front on grapple from an assassin and assault alough chances are if an assault has you grappled you're likely to be ringed out anyway. (have not tested bronze armor)
-never attempt to take an assault head on if he sees you, its instant death.
-you sprint forwards and backwards at the same pace, in a tough spot?, no need to waste time turning your char around just instanly sprint backwards.
-failed to kill a gunner/tank in a grapple? instanly JUMP out of the way and ESCAPE, gunners will usually pound right after your grapple and jumping will save you from being owned, dont try n finish them off if they still have half health you'll get dominated, just get out of there.
-a juiced assassin can take out 3 turrets easily.
-firebase is your nemesis, only attempt to tackle one if youre juiced or have lvl 3 cloak to shuriken it from afar.
-dont even try killing a support next to a firebase.

i think this strategy is a good way to get a feel for assassins, you dont have to worry much about landing a grapple as most of your kills come from being juiced, you dont have to spend all your cash on abilities as youll do fine with everything at level 2 (except your passive). i use this strategy and 9 times out of 10 ill get mvp so its a very useful build and good for your team.

You mean you can do more with Assassin that just round around Invisible spamming Grapple?! :shock:

whats a shuriken launcher

The juice endorsement doesn't increase the rate you gain juice, it just gives you some juice when you spawn. This means you're only seeing the benefit of the juice endorsement when you die (and if you're dying enough to actually get good use out of it, you're probably dying too much.)

I have been going with rate of fire myself, which helps you tear through bots even faster (which gets you both money AND juice.)

Also, I love that you can sprint backwards. Both for the convenience and for the backwards sprinting animation that makes me laugh.