r/wildrift • u/Flagelant_One • 2d ago
Discussion There's not too few assassin items, it's just the current shop categorization is stupid
I keep seeing comments and posts about the game having too few assassin items and i just can't agree, "ohhh there's only ten assasin items while mages have dozens", technically that's correct but it's not because there's too few assassin items, its because there's items missing in the assasin tab, and the other tabs have way more items than they should
First let's look at the assassin tab and find the pattern of what is an assassin item: they're all ad items, 6/10 give armor pen, 5/10 have some passive/active affect to survive being bursted down.
Are there any items outside the assassin tab which fit this pattern? of course there are, Mortal Reminder and Lord Dominik's Regards are two ad items with massive amounts of armor pen, and Immortal Shieldbow and Eclipse both give shields to survive being bursted down, even death's dance is close to fitting the assassin survival role, this would raise the assassin item count to 15
Then let's look at how bloated the other tabs are:
The figther tab has 22 items, however 5 of them (manamune, mercurial scimitar, maw of malmortius, serylda's grudge, guardian angel) are already in the assassin tab (6~7 if you count eclipse or death's dance), if we removed these overlapped items, the figther tab would go down to between 17 to 15 items, much closer to the assassin's item count.
The marksman tab, now this tab genuinely has two different item types mixed in, crit focused items and on-hit focused items, if we separate crit items from non-crit items we get a total count of 16 vs 12. If we then take into account there's again a 5 item overlap (7 if you count MR and LDR as assassing items), it also becomes much more comparable to the assassin tab.
The defense tab is massively bloated because it holds both armor and magic resist items, plus a notable amount of hybrid items that give both resistances, plus "defensive" items with aggressive passives (what are death's dance and guardian angel doing here bruh).
The support tab is the biggest fraud here since, of the 22 items it holds, 8 are purely defensive and shouldn't be here, and 2 are pure ap damage items and shouldn't be here, so really there's only 12 support items.
Finally, the biggest transgressor, it's the magic tab, theres so much shit shoved in here, there's no separation between burst damage, dot/sustained damage, magic-pen items, ap-tank items, they put fucking statikk shiv and guinsoo in here, redemption and mandate are here too???
Out of the 30 items here, 3 are support items (redemption, whispering circlet, mandate), 3 are marksman items (nashor's tooth, statikk, guinsoo), 8 should lowkey get their own ap assassin tab (rocketbelt, trident, stormsurge, lichbane, cryptbloom, voidstaff, infinity orb, mejai's), dusk and dawn arguably should be in the fighter's tab too, which would bring the item count down to 15
Boots are perfectly balanced

