There are still zero follow up changes to a single mage affected by patch 8.9
Duskblade gets nerfed and Riot preemptively buffs a bunch of AD champions before the patch even hits live resulting in many of them being much stronger than they even were with the original Duskblade.
Riot finally gets rid of the unneeded 15% attack speed on Machete that was eventually supposed to be removed anyways, and there were already numerous base attack speed buffs to a number of Junglers on the PBE before that patch even hits live, many of which will make them much more powerful than they already were with machete prior to 8.10.
I expect to see a similar case with ADC where Riot panics and ships out a bunch of quick buffs following 8.11 resulting in ADC being at exactly the same place they were prior to 8.11.
We are already at the patch 8.11 cycle on the PBE and there is not one single buff or QoL change for a single mage affected by 8.9 despite many of them losing noticeable winrate and/or being subpar to mediocre at best. The bias that Riot holds towards mid lane mages that can actually carry a game because of LC$ is insane, and they get away with it because mage players still form a smaller minority of the overall playerbase in solo queue.
Some of the best poke and clear in the game. He outranges almost any champ in this game with his W-Q combo. His damage is insanely high, he clears waves better than any midlaner and his escape options and mobility make him an all around right choice, its never wrong not to pick Zed vs any midlaner.
just does not lose games, his scaling is through the roof and all it takes is a few kills to have him assassinating entire teams and there is nothing you can do to stop it. He roams the map faster than any champion and trying to chase him into the next lane is pretty much hopeless, you'll never beat him there unless you have TP. His scaling is so out of whack that trying to 1v1 him in lane is impossible, and Rake makes his clear impressively good.
There really is nothing left to say, with the revert back to her old ways she presses 2 buttons and your dead every time. You cannot catch her by any means and her CC is actually better then most midlaners have to offer, her only downside is she uses mana.
This is a champion who was designed to get penta kills. When they announced her rework i was so happy because i thought they'd tone her down but now shes just even better at it. Free rotations is free damage, and she gets free rotations like no tomorrow, no mana means she can farm endlessly, infinite cool down reduction on skills thanks to her passive, easy quick rotations, she's still designed to get penta kills.
