Tips for assassin ?

[JohnPasSmith]

Hi !
I'm would like to hear your tips to be useful with an assasin.
I played orochi, shaman and peacekeeper, but in this moment it's most with peacekeeper and i would like to know (if there are) some tips to be helpful to our team.
How i play, most of time i run through the map to help X or Y teammate or go cap a point with the PK speed it's pretty useful in my opinion. I also kill minions and it's pretty cool that the PK got light "zone" attack.
Now, the main question is : "how i can help my teamate during a gank ?" hard to thing with an assassin because of his little list of attacks without any orange attack or any bash, most of time i just change my heavy into a guard break because most of time the enemy try to parry or don't think about be guard break by another enemy, now what could i do more ?
Thanks !
(with the help of google translate to spare you spelling mistakes)

[Antik]

PK is ♥♥♥♥ in ganks, if someone is external blocking you your best bet it running GB from behind and pray they don't react on time.

[JuneBug]

Learn how to delay your lights, and practice it.

[Asmodia]

As orochie I like to feint my top or right into a zone attack, it kills your stamina but is really useful. But sometimes let the heavy follow through just to keep mixing up, light spam is sort of effective but good players can parry just try to keep an advantage over them and try to deflect

[Stret]

Originally posted by D og:

As orochie I like to feint my top or right into a zone attack, it kills your stamina but is really useful. But sometimes let the heavy follow through just to keep mixing up, light spam is sort of effective but good players can parry just try to keep an advantage over them and try to deflect

***it kills your stamina but gets you parried

***letting the heavy follow up through either gets blocked and the light after it parried, or dodged if delayed

*** light spam is not effective if ypue opponent aint ♥♥♥♥

[There'sNoStringOnMe]

As an assassin, your job is to assassinate and/or even out the fights. You're most rewarded for 1v1, but aiding your team in 2v2, 3v3, etc. grants honorable bonus. But in exchange, your job falls short in ganks because most assassins don't have the required tool to pressure external block. If you find yourself ganking with a teammate, best option is to feint and try to GB every now and then, and watch out for their reinforcement. Other than that, just pick a fight with lone wolves, and try to bail out when the situation is unfavorable.

If you wanna gank better with an assassin-like hero, you should try hybrid class, their kits are more suitable for ganks and their renown gain is "balanced across all activities", meaning you're not punished for 'dishonorable' (game term) actions.

[Mage]

deflect, deflect and more deflect

[Koostec]

Originally posted by CallOfCreature:

deflect, deflect and more deflect

yep you need that

gonna deflect for style point and hiting your opponents physically and mentaly

[There'sNoStringOnMe]

Originally posted by Koostec:

Originally posted by CallOfCreature:

deflect, deflect and more deflect

yep you need that

gonna deflect for style point and hiting your opponents physically and mentaly

and for falling for feints and getting GB'd

[76561198048978863]

How to play Shaman:

Step 1: use the unblockable heavy
Step 2: hard feint to bait a parry
Step 3: deflect
Step 4: ???
Step 5: profit

How to play Orochi:

Step 1: have a potato internet with over 200 ping
Step 2: use kiai
Step 3: smash the light attack button
Step 4: ???
Step 5: profit

How to play Peacekeeper: Don't. Instead, play the buffed version of her (Shaman).

[JohnPasSmith]

Actually, you can't deflect in a gank, because the enemy don't attack you.
I do'nt know why but i do'nt like shaman, weird because she is the buffed ver of PK for real, and her feats are way better. BUT, she don't have cool mask :p

Originally posted by HagaH:

As an assassin, your job is to assassinate and/or even out the fights. You're most rewarded for 1v1, but aiding your team in 2v2, 3v3, etc. grants honorable bonus. But in exchange, your job falls short in ganks because most assassins don't have the required tool to pressure external block. If you find yourself ganking with a teammate, best option is to feint and try to GB every now and then, and watch out for their reinforcement. Other than that, just pick a fight with lone wolves, and try to bail out when the situation is unfavorable.

If you wanna gank better with an assassin-like hero, you should try hybrid class, their kits are more suitable for ganks and their renown gain is "balanced across all activities", meaning you're not punished for 'dishonorable' (game term) actions.

The problem is that even if someone is alone, when i begin to fight with him his team hit me from behind, most of time people just play turtle and waiting for their team, don't need to tell you how an assassin is weak if he is gank.

[Mage]

Shinobi deflect and escape if you are being ganked