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RIP - New Ashe

staticlag·5/14/2015, 9:54:18 PM·2 votes·679 views

I've been playing Ashe ever since I started league. I used to love the massive crit that came with the first hit and the fact that once she got some items she was a viable competitor, although her kit was heavily item dependent. 2x PD, IE, BT and its gg. Massive crits and the life regen that came with BT, pretty much hard to hard cc her to win.

Now. She is dead as a competitive adc champion.

Here's why:

  1. Her Q has become her only source of damage since she cannot crit normally. This means you have waste item slots on CD reduction, making an already too item dependent champ even more item dependent.
  2. Her Q duration is too short for ANY teamfight. It can only focus one champ and will not even have the duration or speed or strength to take down a tank.
  3. She no longer has a strong slow to help her escape or gap close, once the other team gets ANY boots her slow is pretty much useless for 90% of the champs out there.

Q has pretty much been turned into a super ultra-nerf Jinx minigun

How she can be fixed

  1. Make Q toggle on constantly but use mana, and increase the attack speed with it to like 80%.
  2. Keep everything the same but make her crit normally in addition to frost shot adding additional damage
  3. Make hawkshot temporarily increase her speed when she uses it.
  4. Keep everything the same Make Q increase her range to 800
  5. change her W to be a heal so she can be a support char.
  6. Make her fully a mage with Q laying on hard magic damage
  7. Give her a good utility passive in addition to what she already has, like 1 in 4 chances an enemy champ will miss her, or that she cannot be slowed at all for any reason, or invisibility when sitting in bushes.

Right now shes some good fun early game with her new kit. But once you hit the 20 minute mark she clearly falls on her face in scaling once the enemy team gets armor. Not to mention she cannot 1v1 any other ADC right now.

Lets see:

She has a stun (crystal arrow), she has a mild slow, she has vision, and a single target skill. That sounds shes now a weak support for sure.

3 Comments

USG Morta5/14/2015, 10:07:21 PM2 votes

i've 1v1 both jinx and lucian with new ashe. grab bt and boots early (furor is good) then go pd/black cleaver and its pretty strong. runaans and/or shiv also good.

LilxPaprika5/14/2015, 10:06:36 PM1 votes

word of advice when posting suggestion try to keep/list the most modest primary ones first. and the rest as an after thought of sorts.

example: 3) Make hawkshot temporarily increase her speed when she uses it.

this would be pretty contrary to its intended use. let me arbitrarily use hawkshot just for the mov speed buff. ashe players will blindly hawkshot mid fight just for the mobility. kind of clunky.

now people reading that will pay even less attention to whatever good suggestion might lurk in this post. try to keep it at the essential.