Riot should be ashamed

CoupDetate·2/20/2018, 11:52:13 PM·2 votes·455 views

I just saw the twitter feed with the new late Zoe changes, and Gods honest truth, the balance team and Andre van Roon should feel that shame hardest. You guys straight up CAVED to bronzies that don't know how to move around with this latest nerf. I understand SOME of your reasoning, comparing it to the nidalee rework some time back, but you guys took it WAY too far, whether you acknowledge that you did or not. You murder her Q damage, remove Teleport from W, E can be cleansed from drowzy as well as the CDR buff on it, and then the combined nerf of Q and more Sparkles. All of that on TOP of the previous nerfs she's been getting. You have taken her from a champion that is fun to play, with a decently high skill cap, and turned her into old school pre-rework Urgot, where no one EVER played him because the damage potential is there.... but only if the opposing team is full of complete and total idiots who literally intentionally feed. Lets be real, bronzies... Im not one shotting a carry without either A: tagging him with a sleepy bubble (Which players already know to stand in front of the sleeping champion to prevent the extra proc), or b, hitting him from an EXTREME long range Q (Either from a combination of Q+ult or Q+Flash+Ult) which requires a great deal of intuition and luck to pull off. (You have to guess where that carry is going to be 1+ seconds AFTER you sling the Q). If i accomplish either one of those 2 things... then you got OUTPLAYED.

The "Buffs" you guys gave to her passive and her W, as well as her +34 base HP and +2 base AD (yeah.... game changing stat changes there....... great buff) are a complete joke. You have turned Zoe into a completely broken and unplayable champ at this point.... and it's sad because even in your twitter post, you KNEW you were making her completely useless in game. I've been a loyal player since season 2, and i have trusted you guys to make smart calls for the game balance and structure to keep it fun. Even when you've reworked or nerfed my mains, i understood the need, and i knew it was for the health of the game. This time though.... this isn't about balance anymore, this isn't about health of the game, this is about you guys caving to bronzies who don't have enough sense to move out of the way of skill shots. Wonder who the next "OP" champ to be gutted is going to be. Zed? Yasuo? Orianna? Vayne? If you'll cave once, you'll cave again.

4 Comments

U GOT WRECKT LOL2/21/2018, 12:23:03 AM3 votes

Zoe deserved everything she got. The problem I have is that they reworked my main LeBlanc because "too much damage w/o counterplay" then they come up with Zoe and leave it for months. If her drowsy lasted for 1 second, I'd be fine. But like a 4 second cooldown on the most broken CC in the game is absolutely ridiculous. Good riddance Zoe.

warpenguin5552/20/2018, 11:54:40 PM2 votes
KVbqbFsC8e2/20/2018, 11:56:03 PM2 votes

There must be alot of Bronze players in the LCS and LCK then....