The Ashe auto-q reset change feels terrible

Motel 6 Rat·10/6/2016, 9:26:38 PM·7 votes·2,409 views

Q - Ranger's Focus NEW MINIMUM ATTACK DELAY - Instead of fully resetting Ashe’s basic attack, casting Ranger’s Focus reduces her basic attack delay to 40% of the full value (no reduction if the delay is already below 40%).

FOR EXAMPLE If Ashe’s delay between basic attacks is 1 second, casting Ranger’s Focus brings that delay down to 0.40 seconds for the next attack.

FLURRY DAMAGE 1.15/1.2/1.25/1.3/1.35 total attack damage ⇒ 1.05/1.1/1.15/1.2/1.25 total attack damage

Patch 6.20 saw some more Ashe nerfs (completely unnecessary ones at that) and I have quite a few complaints as an adc player.

First of all I feel like the amount of Ashe nerfs are going too far, multiple patches in a row you keep hitting her and while the first couple nerfs were reasonable and justifiable, this one is too far.

She's already in a relatively weakened spot due to the rising of Jinx and Ezreal and the nerfing of Sivir and Jhin, her matchups now are sub-par at best.

There's really no reason to take off a significant amount of damage from her Q like that, but if you for some reason feel like it does too damage, whatever keep the change.

But what absolutely cannot stay is the auto Q reset change, it feels so awful and unnecessary.

It feels like the goal was to add unnecessary clunkiness to the ability to make it feel bad to use early while also weakening her trading potential in lane.

Remember when Lucian's E didn't reset his auto attack? It felt terrible to use at most stages of the game and caused a lot of people to beg for it to reset his auto attack as a QoL change (slight buff).

Why reverse from that and go from making champions feel better to use to making them feel worse to use?

That change absolutely needs to be reverted.

Sincerely, an angry ADC player who remembers the horrors of Lucian's E not resetting auto attacks.

TL;DR - The auto reset change added awful clunkiness to the ability while simultaneously nerfing the damage on it and slowing her trading in lane. Think of Lucian's old E and how it felt so bad because it didn't reset the AA.

6 Comments

Drehirth10/6/2016, 9:40:03 PM5 votes

Wait they seriously nerfed her again even though she s declined so much since her other nerfs and they left jihn as is?? Wtf

riot's justification, "We think we've cashed in enough from her legendary skin, and will now nerf her even more to make sure she isn't played."

Drehirth10/7/2016, 10:08:57 PM2 votes

I'm kind of sad nobody seems to care about this -_-

she was probably in the best spot you could've wanted and now she's probably joining kalista...

Sm0k3McCl0ud10/7/2016, 1:04:52 AM1 votes

Nah.

Valheeru10/8/2016, 2:19:45 AM1 votes

Riot seems to be basing the nerfs on one or 2 top players, leaving us mediocre players with a minion in ashe clothing, i have never felt so disgusted playing ashe ,thank god i didnt spend cash for the legendary skin as ashe is worthless than dirt now. the sad part is as one of the very old players of lol i am disappointed in riot not learning the lesson to nerf a champ to ground instead of fixing it. funny part how you say ashe has to keep them in the sweet spot when everyone and their dog has an extreme gap closer and ashe walks like a snail. I know riot doesn't care on what i comment as I am not on e of the top players but you lost one of your long term fans, Please do note I did not disagree to you nerfing ashe its the nerf her down to dirt is what I am against, there is a saying history teaches us what not to do , remember lucian. Peace out peep, wont be on so often till riot gets there head out of the sand. I know I will get lots of downvotes but this is my piece of mind from a casual player. Cheerz

WoonStruck10/8/2016, 2:35:05 AM1 votes

Good. That's the point of the change, after all.