Riot's Perspective on Zed/Assassins?

DrElevator·Aug 1, 2014·1 votes·45 views

What are Riot's thoughts on Zed specifically and also on assassins as a whole, now that they are no longer top of the food chain? Do they need champion specific changes, or just a shift in meta? And for Zed specifically, what does Riot think about the proposed revert to his W missile speed, or other changes, maybe a bump in the E passive, so W CD gets more time taken off when you E and enemy? Are these viable changes that Riot would look at? Why/Why not? This thread is directed towards Rioters, but open for anyone with information or just thoughts on the topic.

2 Comments

Serpents EmbraceAug 1, 20141 votes

Guessing from the patch notes and the patch rundown the changes for assassins are on a class basis.

The nerfs to Exhaust's damage reduction and Heal are definitely aimed at making it less easy to escape assassins just by burning a Summoner cooldown.

I don't play Zed but I also feel like AD assassins are hurting a little now that they can't stack Bloodthirsters for high AD builds. It'd be nice if they'd push through that +% bonus AD effect that tested on Bloodthirster. Although the current Bloodthirster doesn't seem like the best fit for it. It'd definitely help my Talon games, though.

Phoenix Kotori Aug 1, 20141 votes

Samung blue just play Zed to amazing effect today, I am not sure he needs that much changes, he has some minor ones on PBE:

Zed Living Shadow [ W ] - Now costs 40/30/20/10/0 energy (down form 40/35/30/25/20) Living Shadow [ W ] - Cooldown is now 18/16.5/15/13.5/12 (down from 18/17/16/15/14)