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Swap Flash and Zhonyas.

MalzaharAnyLane·5/24/2015, 5:53:12 AM·1 votes·366 views

Zhonyas is already core on Morgana, Fiddlesticks, Kennen, Vlad, and almost core on Swain and a consistent mage staple in general.

It's also becoming a problematic cure-all for getting bursted down or otherwise outplayed, just pop it to reset your cooldowns and continue casting, while hoping someone else will kill your aggressor before they finish you off.

Flash and mobility creep is already a problem anyway, so if you just take Flash's effect and stick it on Zhonya's Hourglass, while changing Flash to have Zhonya's effect, you give the effect to everyone in the game, can nerf it freely while making Flash less accessible and therefore proper positioning more critical, while not removing the defensive get-out-of-jail-free aspects of Flash.

We have Deathcap and Luden's Echo if you want AP, time for Zhonyas to be a more generalized item for people to buy, closer to Blink Dagger in DOTA2.

I agree that the assassins that are /causing/ Zhonyas to be excessively popular in the first place still need some kind of nerfs, (Zed and Talon mainly, followed by Akali, brusiers/Fiora, and then ADC's), but since the item's broken 'allow damage auras to continue during the invulnerability' is core to the gameplay for several champions with middle of the road playrates, and Flash is exacerbating the mobility creep problem, I feel like removing Flash as an early game mobility consideration will smooth out several matchups early while leaving nothing changed very much late-game. It's not like AD carries/bruisers can't benefit from the Zhonya's active anyway, they just can't build it because of the 120 AP stupidity.

Mind you, I'm a Malzahar, Fiora and Viktor player, I'd gladly give up Flash early game if my opponents couldn't do it so they are forced to deal with being mechanically outdone earlier rather than having a free out to being forced to tower hug every 5 minutes. It will clean up/shake up most of the bot lane dynamics as well, not having Flash to fix jungle ganks.

3 Comments

Marthian5/24/2015, 6:10:02 AM2 votes

No for the same reason Flash can't be removed: It would severely hurt characters that lack mobility. Mages get Zhonyas not only for the stats and the invuln, it also buys them time to get cooldowns on their abilities back. Most other characters do not want that: ADCs if they would zhonya are going to die anyways and want to deal consistant damage, and do you ever see much tanks build Zhonyas? No.

Prismghost5/24/2015, 7:10:57 AM1 votes

See I can ignite someone and they'll flash and still die. I can't do that with zhonya's

Yosuke Apperu5/25/2015, 3:02:03 AM1 votes

An ad zhonya type item should be a thing tho... or even just an item that builds into hourglass but doesnt have ap.. rather it would have friendly stats to anyone. give it like 200 hp and 25 armor and mr or something.