>Kotegaeshi is nice but you're better off throwing.
>If you die to someone who types kanse at you and you're not
>being bashed, you deserve to die.
>
>I don't really think of maledicts when I think of dying to
>assassins. It does have raid implications though (and don't
>forget confuse darts).
>

This didn't used to be the case. Assassins used to use maledicts to drop weapons and prevent being rofl stomped by bashing giant warrior. It was "can get get off a kot/kans before they bash me into the dirt?" and the answer was... sometimes. Now it's just throw, because I do everything better than them anyway.