[POLL] Ashe: Balanced, underpowered, or overpowered?

Balanced for what she does, it's just that she's a bit unusual as an ADC because her kit brings in a lot of utility.

Balanced, but she just feels unexciting and unrewarding to play.

Ashe has so much of her identity tied to range and CC you must use them to be at all effective with her, which basically means you always have to stick with teammates. Because her team-fight presence is really strong (range is a massive asset when a front line is there, and a 1 second stun means 5 seconds for your team to capitalize on), her dueling potential is abysmal because balance.

You can't really do carry-the-team-on-my-back plays with Ashe due to how heavily reliant she is on having allies that are on the same page. Completely ignoring the CC power of her ultimate and using it to snipe is literally the only thing Ashe has going for her in securing last hits against enemy champions as well, making it fairly difficult to not just wind up with nothing but assists.

Overall, Ashe is like a support that scales with AD. She's solid, just doesn't hog any glory whatsoever. Less than many actual supports in many cases, as a typical support has a godly start and ~eh end-game, where Ashe has a pretty weak start and a solid finish, provided she got enough assists.

Wayy underpowered. One damaging ability. Her slow and ulti kind of make up for it, but only when you're kiting. Its good for chasing too, but that can lead you into unwanted ganks while chasing. or even the support to wreck you while going for the kill. If not ahead quick, you won't be at all. I only ashe when i have a support like blitz or tresh. Closing gap then slowing with your 1 is the best for her. But otherwise. Sonas heal or leonas stuns wont do much if the other team has a heal in any sense. Just my bit of mind.

Btw, I'm really good with Ashe, It's just shes one that i have to put the most work in, to get the most out. Her e should be like ezreals W that hits only champions but also only in the aoe where it lands, and still give it the effect to reveal the area for even just a minimal damage. Her W should also not stop on the first hit. It'd be nice if it pierces through all enemies (But that might be going too far.)

After all, I barely use my W when playing ashe. It's only used for minions and that only. Its a waste. The time it takes to use your W i could have put in AA's to the the same damage, without the longer cast time. therefor putting you further away from the enemy when they're running

When comparing against a jinx who's Q is basically your W (Minion blaster) and Triple auto attacks. Jinxes Reaaaaaaally strong W Poke, Her E Area stun, and her Ultimate the same as ashes without the stun, but still, stronger.. Ashe just seems, outdated..

Plus let's not forget jinx's passive. Pentakill anyone?

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I tend to agree on that Gypsyleeboy she is way underpowered. I believe it more due to the fact that Ashe's kit is somewhat outdated. I mean she is harder to gank than most other adcs but that is about all she can do in laning phase. She isn't impressive during the laning phase and most of the damage she creates is off of that one guaranteed critical strike that she has, which depended on the match, can be enough for the team. Personally I would like to see Ashe create more utility for a team with a little more damage, with less itemization. As Ashe is right now she is neither impressive in a game nor really balanced, but does offer enough to the right compositions (which are rarely seen except in premade 5s, in my own experience).

Mostly underpowered. Her kit is designed to sacrifice damage for kiting ability, which back in the old days of League made her an unbelievably powerful duelist and, many think, heralded the rise of Mobility Creep which completely destroyed her edge. That role has since been taken up by Caitlyn, who brings more damage and better kiting ability but less utility. And who needs that? Right now utility is the role of everyone else while the ADC exists only to kill people. If you released a character with Ashe's skillset today most people would look at them as a support

Think about it: Passive + Spellthief's is a great little combo since you won't attack much anyway. Q is a permaslow, for helping your ADC kill people. W is an AoE slow with a long range that's good for softening up minions for last-hitting. E is extra vision, like a free blue trinket, that also gives you more gold. R is a long-range low-damage stun that's awesome for initiation or for peeling.

Looks a lot like a support's kit, doesn't it? Which sums up Ashe's major problem in a nutshell.

Balanced for what she is, though way underpowered compared to other ADCs.

If you look up Ashe's patch history, she's never received any *big * changes (even the ability reworks don't change much).

I'd argue that Ashe has always been the most balanced/balance-able champion in the league .

That being said she's never really been overpowered(the last time she was nerfed we added Leona, and the time before that was a year earlier).

The main problem with Ashe I see is that she has an ability (Hawkshot) that is nothing more than a glorified avarice blade with a weak cv attached... no damage necessary on the skill just throw a 1.5-2 second silence on it and watch the rage flow.

I've always had a lot of fun playing Ashe. Her total attack speed is at the very top (tied with Vayne), which gives her an edge over a lot of other ADCs and lets her build more AD without having to worry too much about itemizing for attack speed. And her animations have always felt very satisfying for some reason. She is one of the smoothest champs to play, at least in my experience.

The one thing I'd like to see boosted is the slow on her Q...it's pretty mediocre, especially early. 5-10% more would make a huge difference.

Ashe is my favorite ADC so far. Her Ult brings a fat pile of CC to a team fight or is perfect for catching some one out of position. I tend to build a on her because it helps her absolutely melt a tower and mixed with a gives her a fair amount of dueling potential. Because of her kit design you will end up with more assists than kills come mid-late game. But to me winning is winning. I can still feel like im contributing if I go 3/2/15 instead of 15/2/3. I see how much dmg im putting down, what my slows are doing and how fast im melting single targets/towers. Give me a or a in that bot lane with me? TASTY.

UP. Ashe don't need mobility because her CC are good(His Q are op at rank 5 and ult too). Ashe just need damage(W has nice scales but low base damage). She need to be a funny champion to play. A passive like other sniper, varus and caitlyn, which increments damage in team fight.

Playing Ashe is boring. No fun. Her ultimate is nice. But I prefer play varus with frozen mallet xD.

If you play ashe, you need aggresive support like karma, thresh or leona. Thresh works very well with her.

She is UP and no funny. I never will pick her in normal or ranked.