Mid Season Update

Inting Pillow··2 votes·375 views

Mid season brought some nice changes to champs. Too bad their is one champ who barely received a buff, Ziggs. Now some people might say no he can kill turrets fast so he is good, but compared to some other changes the Ziggs buff is trash. They gave Malz more voidlings, and a spell shield at lvl 1, Brand got a massive amount of AOE bullshit damage, Vladimir heals just as much and deals more damage now, Zyra spawns in sentries which deal good damage as a mage or support, Vel'Koz deals insane amounts of true damage now, and Cassio got a brand new type of CC. Those were big changes, let's look at the smaller buffs, Annie now has a useful tibbers he deals massive damages and will avenge her death, Swain heals more and does more damage, fiddlesticks is more mobile now, syndra's w is greatly empowered, Xerath gets more shots off with his ult, and Anivia has extra damage added to her ult, Oh yeah veigar now deals EVEN MORE DAMAGE. Now let's look at Ziggs, Ziggs can waste his escape ability to kill turrets faster. What? Riot just made it so all champs damage turrets faster, but the one "buff" they gave Ziggs was to kill towers faster, this is really useless. I'm sitting here waiting for Ziggs to become viable again. (It will probably happen after Yorick gets his rework)

5 Comments

Deneviel1 votes

Cause Ziggs has always been in a good spot .... now that CD and mana items are easier build up he can litterally spam Q/W in lane. Honestly I don't see any reason to buff him .... he passively got more love than a lot of champ.

Inting Pillow1 votes

When you see Ziggs in LCS tell me, Ziggs is pretty useless compared to other mages.

Michael Sykes1 votes

and Ziggs will never be as good as Azir if none of them is going to be changed.

Probably he just does not fit this meta

Kiharon1 votes

Ziggs has been picked twice this season in NA. To be fair that team did lose both times, but I inclined to not use that to write it off completely as it was picked by NRG vs NV and TSM. It's possible, but hard to prove one way or the other, another mid laner may have changed the outcome.

Kiharon1 votes

When Riot does class updates, they seem more aimed at defining and accentuating identities or niches. I would say the Ziggs changes succeeded here. He demolishes turrets faster than even marksmen can hope to achieve. It seems that a lot of people don't appreciate this power, but it is the niche he has.

On top of that, he received buffs that increase his teamfight potential. Let's look at the 6.9 changes:

  • Passive: increased ratio by 5%/10%/15% AP at levels 1/7/13 (note: all passive damage is double vs turrets)
  • Passive: increased cooldown reduction on ability use by 0/1/2 seconds at levels 1/7/13
  • W: can now execute turrets
  • R: cooldown 120 to 120/105/90
  • R: no longer deals double damage to minions

Of those changes, only the last ult change is even a nerf, and it's one that you really didn't like having to use anyway. If you do find yourself ulting waves, it still does enough damage to mostly clear them.

Both of the passive changes and the R cooldown changes are buffs to his teamfighting. The passive changes also improve his turret taking capabilities.

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