While I Do Appreciate Zeal Nerfs...

iPooUnicorns··2 votes·731 views

I'd rather see their Critical Strike Chance and/or Movement Speed bonus toned down a bit.

The movement speed bonus I think is too overbearing since ADCs already have high range, and the critical strike chance is going to be way too high with the new IE.

What I would change with Zeal and its upgrades:

item 3086 Attack Speed: 15 -> 20% Critical Strike Chance: 20 -> 15% Movement Speed: 5 -> 2% Total Cost: 1100

Reducing Critical Strike Chance and Movement Speed while increasing Attack Speed and decreasing cost to compensate, these changes will also carry over to its upgrades.

item 3087 item 3094 Attack Speed: 35 -> 40% / 30 -> 35% Respectively Critical Strike Chance: 30 -> 20% Movement Speed 5 -> 2.5% Total Cost: 2800 -> 2600

Hitting the Critical Strike Chance the hardest for these items because of how powerful Energized Strikes are, especially when both items are purchased.

item 3085 Attack Speed: 40 -> 45% Critical Strike Chance: 30 -> 25% Movement Speed: 7 -> 3.5% Total Cost: 2800 -> 2600

Didn't make sense for the AoE focused upgrade to also give the most Movement Speed Bonus.

item 3046 Attack Speed: 45 -> 50% Critical Strike Chance: 30 -> 25% Movement Speed: 5% -> Unique Passive: 4% Movement Speed, this bonus is doubled while in combat with champions. Total Cost: 2800 -> 2600

Slight rework for the Movement Speed Bonus, doubling down on its identity as the mobility/dueling oriented Zeal Upgrade.

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Manslayer2 votes

Just remove adcs all together, fuck it right? These changes are basically doing that anyways. Been playing on the PBE for about 8 hours now with these changes and adcs do almost no damage and the only good ones are Jhin or Caitlyn, save maybe a different one that may crop up (See Ezreal, he will still be top tier since these don't touch him). Adcs are even more reliant on their supports in the bot lane now as they take a lot more damage, although having more hp is nice vs things like magic damage. Ignoring all that, the adcs that make the best use of Razor are going to dominate, OR if you are an IE + double zeal adc you are fine too. Adcs that relied on Essence Reaver as a core item are 100% dog shit useless now.

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