My issue with Zed Ult

DrDiaga·5/2/2016, 11:08:41 PM·5 votes·595 views

Its too damned safe. The "press R to return" should be removed.

Its a point and click engage, damage buff, AND a free disengage.

Zeds ult currently doesn't make diving as him risky, which I thought was supposed to be a handicap of assassins. He can retreat for free.

His has his Shadow skill, he should be forced to use that WS either an escape or to add to his damage.

Letting him retreat for free after an engage is my biggest issue with zed.

20 Comments

Alüe5/2/2016, 11:14:45 PM2 votes

if you hadn't realize most of the op assassins currently all have amazing gameplay potential for an escape Ekko Leblanc Zed and i guess Fizz. Either there mobility has to suffer or there damage, preferably mobility. Also put higher barriers to entry on these champions for instance. Making zed's ult a skill shot i feel would be more rewarding than a point and click.

Slythion5/2/2016, 11:15:53 PM2 votes

Well, I can argue the other side:

  • His ult allows you to know exactly where he will be in a moment
  • It's fairly easy to chain-cc him right out of ult
  • He has to stay in to do enough damage to kill, which is your opening to kill him (unless he's fed, but then you just zhonyas or qss)

It also:

  • Adds a lot of counterplay to his kit
  • Is incredibly unique among all the league champions

Personally, I like the idea that's been floating around the boards where his Q damage is reduced and there is a bonus for hitting 2 or 3 Q's at once from his shadows. The problem with Zed is his safe waveclear + harass which goes against the assassin kit. fixing his Q damage will solve that and provide a higher skill cap for this champ (which I think is deserved)

DarkLarvitar5/3/2016, 2:33:51 AM2 votes

well before the shadow was put right next to the target as well, and he had no escape but he did A LOT more damage

LordGeovanni5/3/2016, 2:34:12 AM1 votes

While true. Assassins are the overall favorite class in the game because of the delete and fall back to saftey tactics. but when tanks dont die for being tanky is massively unfair despite having to trade off damage on medium base damage low scaleing spells.

Automatis5/3/2016, 2:34:54 AM1 votes

It used to make the shadow next to the target.

It should be reverted to that.

But Riot never admits to mistakes.