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ZED'S CHANGES- NOT TALKING TO NERF/BUFF HIM BUT RIOT'S CHANGES THAT I DISAGREE

Chaos of Unseen·5/21/2016, 5:44:12 AM·3 votes·482 views

In PBE server, zed got changed and which was a nerf, and I am not here to complain about his nerf but rather I think RIOT is focusing on wrong things to make him high risk high reward champion. Riot's purpose was neither on heavily nerfing or slightly buffing him, but rather making him harder by giving him more damage if he lands three shrikens but if he doesn't he does less damage. RIOT, zed's play style is using his shadows to engage with ultimate shadow and disengage with other shadow and engage again with ultimate shadow and using flash to dodge aurelion sol ultimate or other cc and landing about two shurikens, e, and auto attack(for passive which is magic damage since enemies don't build magic resist against zed) and swapping back out to ultimate shadow again if you did not use it to outplay opponents.

BEING GOOD ZED PLAYER DOES NOT MEAN BLINDLY HITTING THREE SKILLSHOTS (SHURIKENS), BUT RATHER HE IS ABOUT USING SHADOWS FOR POSITIONING FOR HIS ADVANTAGE LIKE SHADOW ASSASSIN,

HE IS NOT A GANGPLANK LOL.

AGAIN, I MADE THIS NOT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT ZED NERF BUT RATHER DISAGREEING ON RIOT'S POINT OF VIEW ON GOOD ZEDS.

2 Comments

Zero Skill Tank5/21/2016, 6:31:24 AM2 votes

The point is this playstyle of "outplaying" enemy skillshots is extremely unfair in 1v1 situations - and before you say 1v1 with Zed is a "mistake", I remind you game starts with laning phase so there isn't really a choice either - i.e. if Zed casts his shadow right before he ults, Xerath, Brand or others have absolutely no chance to save themselves without stasis or Summoner Spells, as long as Zed pays attention to animation he will dodge a skillshot every single time, as his blink is instant. Not even a turret will help you, due to his blink back.

The only actual "counterplay" is to recall every time Zed lands anything on you and you are below 100% HP, or to stay those 625 units away from him all the time. None of those are real options. So they change Zed, so that now he will need to land more shurikens before scoring a kill - either while poking, or after the engage.

Leopards Ghost5/21/2016, 5:51:15 AM1 votes

i disagree with any change to zed that isn't necessitated by new champs.