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Changes to QSS/Mercurial. Please, Rito.

IneffableAeon·4/21/2016, 1:33:28 AM·1 votes·613 views

The changes to Merc. Scimitar and QSS are, frankly, disturbing. I understand that it's an absurdly efficient item right now, and taking away 10 AD from it is perfectly understandable.

What isn't understandable, is the fact that this will remove basically any counterplay from Zed, Trundle or Fiora's ultimates. Squishies will have no recourse against Zed other than Zhonya's. There will be simply no way to play against a Fiora with ultimate as Zhonya's will just delay their grisly death to her now uncleansable true damage ultimate.

Unless he's very overtuned at that point in time, I actually enjoy playing both as and against Zed. He's a champion with an extremely fun kit, imo, and I feel like I can play mind games with him. "Where will he shoot his shuriken? Will he use his shadow now? Is his ult and W up now, can I outplay him?" I feel like all of this makes him one of the best champions in LoL, because he's exciting and he has avenues of counterplay and windows of opportunity to exploit.

Looking back at patch 5.1, I remember you guys stating that, "All in all, Zed is one of the best examples of what we call a 'healthy assassin' in League of Legends." With the QSS changes, this is no longer true; many champions will have no recourse to outplay an ulting Zed, and in a world with Duskblade of Drakthar, as soon as Zed gets that and ultimate, he'll be able to pop any Zhonya's-less squishy no matter how far behind he is. This change to QSS will make it so that Duskblade Zed will be the new DFG, with no windows of counterplay for squishies who can't buy armor to counter.

Please, Riot, reconsider this change and how it will affect the state of the game as well as how extremely unfun it will be to play against Zed with Duskblade, a Fiora with ultimate, or any handful of abilities/ultimates that were balanced using this item.

P.S. Or just let me know now, I'll go make a new rune page, rush Duskblade every game and collect my easy LP. Either way, I appreciate any and all feedback, and thanks for reading.

3 Comments

Variks the Loyal4/21/2016, 1:46:58 AM3 votes

They said that they fully expect these champions to be a problem with the new QSS.

That said, they want to wait, observe the gravity of their performances, and rebalance them in the next patch, rather than accidently overnerf them in anticipation and have to buff them later.

Weiner the Pooh4/21/2016, 1:59:41 AM2 votes

Remove counter play from Fiora's ult? There is already a shit ton to it. Are you kidding me?

EcchiOtakuTM4/21/2016, 2:09:09 AM1 votes

Trundle users ulti on tanks.

Fiora's is too simple to outplay.

Zed will probably be nerfed in the soon future however you still have GA, your tanks/bruiser/support teammates should be peeling and you should have better positioning to avoid him flanking. Good positioning includes having vision wherever you're close to.

They wanted to do this so debuff champs can be more balanceable instead of relying on 1 item to shut them down.