PSA to everyone complaining about QSS no longer removing Zed's Ult
For those of you who are complaining about how QSS/Scimitar is no longer going to remove the debuff of Zed's ult, I feel it necessary to point out that Riot has a reason to do this. They know that Zed is going to be played more because of it, and in a future patch, you can expect Zed's damage output to be nerfed a bit.
The reason why Riot is treating QSS/Scimitar is because they're trying to make it so ADC's have a reason to pick a different item over QSS/Scimitar just to deal with very few champs like Zed. Once the patch hits, yes Zed IS going to be not only strong and picked more (which I probably won't be happy about since I'm a Karthus main, but whatever), but after some time, Riot has stated that they are going to be adjusting champs like zed to compensate.
Quoted by Riot Repetoir
The reasoning for the change is pretty much that the cleanse offered by these items was able to functionally negate certain champions' ability to fight the owner of the item. As I'm sure many of you will be quick to point out, the game is balanced around the existence of this effect, and you're not wrong. That said, we think we can get the outliers here to a spot where they are healthy in the game where QSS/MS do not remove all debuffs, and instead only crowd control effects.
By outliers, I do mean the Zeds, Fioras, Trundles, and other problem children there are in light of this change. However, what this change allows us to do is create debuff-focused champions that don't have their kits completely negated with an item purchase and press of a button. With this change, there likely WILL be outliers, and if so, they WILL need to be addressed. The idea here is that we'd like to get to a point where the damage Zed deals with Death Mark (or any other champion with their debuff spell) is fair in the absence of strictly a hard counter item.
I dunno, I feel like with the complaints I've been seeing on Patch notes, I thought it'd be a good idea to bring this up so everyone's not all "OMG RITO IS FAVORITING ZED AGAIN BLABLABLABLA", but it's mostly so they can observe what's going on and adjust accordingly.
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to remove mages CC.