Removing Zephyr

Amaroq·11/4/2015, 2:50:50 PM·1 votes·1,012 views

What is going on? I understand the removal of some items and replacement of others but why Zephry, not many people may build it but surely people are building it and using it a ton more than Zz'Rot Portal?????????? I love this item so much on Irelia when I snowball and want some attack speed and some AD it's so good and scales extremely well with her true damage and the move speed is a huge bonus, not to mention it is extremely good on Yi. Please Riot or someone mail Riot get them to not remove this item or reconsider what you are doing, even replace it with another item just don't remove it please.

6 Comments

Mimy11/4/2015, 2:59:29 PM1 votes

I use zzrot on my supports its funny because it gives gold and protects turrets

BastionKross11/4/2015, 3:40:46 PM1 votes

Here's the thing about Zepher, there's no reason to buy it if you don't count the tenacity. It gives a buttload of attack speed, but AS is a damage multiplier. It should be built after getting some AD for most champions. The tiny amount of AD from Zepher is not enough. You need a big ticket AD item first a lot of the time, to keep your power spike from being delayed. And even then, crit is just as important of a multiplier as AS, and there are multiple items that grant both. Zepher does not.

The CDR is nice, but most champions that value CDR highly don't value attack speed highly and vice-versa. A few champions do, but not a lot.

The movement speed is great, but if you want movement speed and tenacity you get these: item 3111 for much less gold investment.

Ultimately, the item is a mish-mash of different, random stats that may or may not be useful to any given champion. If the CDR was changed to crit to make Zepher an alternative to item 3087 item 3046 then it might see some play. But that also brings up the issue that marksmen would have easy access to tenacity without sacrificing much of anything, resulting in a huge buff to their power.

You could go the opposite route and make the item more bruiser friendly by removing or cutting back the AS and increasing it's AD. But, again, you're giving a class easy access to tenacity without much of a sacrifice, resulting in a huge buff.

I think Riot is doing the right thing by removing it. Tenacity is a powerful ability that any class would love to have, but only tanks deserve to build freely.