Ashe could use some help
is currently one of the worst ad carries in the game.
Sorry, I know first hand how game-changing the ults can be, but that is about all she has.
She is very close to being really damn good, but she has weaknesses that cannot be ignored.
-Low dps -mediocre burst -No steroid -Passive is mostly useless, besides occasional harass and your first shot in a teamfight -Her E is just shit. The passive on it is a cool little bit, but the active doesn't help much in combat. -Completely Immobile -"meh" waveclear
I have a few ideas for ashe buffs
**- Swap her passive and her E, making some improvments. **Passive: Hawkshot Gain extra gold on unit kills After casting an ability, Ashes spirit hawk scouts the area in front of her, removing the fog of war in the area in front of her for 2 seconds, as well as granting Ashe the ability to see into unwarded bushes and through terrain for 3.5 seconds. (You know how lux ult grants vision on cast? Think that, but have the range increase with level, and the width equal that of the current hawkshot) E: Focus Ashe focuses intently, causing her next basic attack to critically strike, and increasing her sight radius by 100/200/300/400/500 for 4 seconds. If Ashe casts Focus while out of combat or in brush, the resulting critical strike will deal and additional 50% damage.
An on-demand crit at any time is pretty damn good. However, if you already have an IE, this will cause your next auto to deal 300% of your ad. Also, the scouting potential in these two abilities is crazy.
-Incorporate and attack/movespeed buff into frostshot, while draining her foes.
Q: frostshot
While active, basic attacks slow the movement and attack speed of opponent and raises ashes movement and attack speeds by half that amount for 2 seconds. Though the slow does not stack, the buff on ashe stacks up to three times. Stacks fall off one at a time. Enemies hit by frostshot via volley will still apply the buff to ashe. (for those ap ashe players) The slow scales with AP, and by extension, the steroid. Enjoy running fast, you fedora tipping
.
This kills two birds with one stone. Ashe has no steroid and no mobility. While this is not precisely
levels of mobility, it is a very high movement speed steroid at three stacks, and a pretty good attack speed buff.
- Make some changes to Volley W: Volley Ashe fires 7 frosted arrows towards her cursor over 0.5 seconds. Each arrow shatters on impact, dealing physical damage and applying frost shot to it and all nearby enemies. Enemies hit by multiple arrows take 25% less damage from each additional hit, minimum of 50% damage. Enemies caught in the AOE receive the full slow of frost shot, but take half damage. Casting Volley resets ashes basic attack timer and does not interrupt movement. These arrows apply onhit effects.
This version of volley functions in a similar fashion to
ult-rockets, except this deals splash damage, slows, and aims in a similar fashion to
ult. This also solves some problems from before. It helps with her dps and burst by letting her throw out the damage of 7 autoattacks out in half a second, and splash damage ups her wave clear significantly.
- Add some style points
visual changes
If Ashe hits someone with their ult, put them in a block of ice
Also, make ashes emotes more pleasing to spam.
Give the "crystal arrow" special interactions with
.
Make DJ
play "cold as ice" by foreigner if there is an allied ashe in the game.
I look forward to seeing dat
on the rift