Zoe is NOT broken, she's TOXIC
Hi everyone first post here! I know that actual suggestions on "reworks" will just fall into obscurity but it's free so why not have a try!
I love Zoe so much, but laning against her it's actually frustrating. So she is permabanned and i cant blame them. She's no mean an OPchamp, but the fact is that she offer almost no counterplay once she landed the E.
If you have no vision you just can't sidestep her sleep and once in sleep u can't use summoners too, and they are ment to be a "get out of jail" card for when you make a mistake (at low skill level). One error and you are dead, silence was almost removed from the game for the same reason.
So, RIOT, instead of nerfing/buffing her why just don't change her E? Instead of a sleep that gives extra damage to anyone just make it a sleep + a shield on the enemy that lasts until the first hit or a half second after the target wakes up.
The pro are that it will get less toxic and it will become a strategic spell "let's position until the skill lasts". Sorta like the bard's ulti. Also it will increase it's counterplay/skill to land the full combo since u can dodge the Q if not timed really precisely.
Instead you can make that you can cast W even without a summoner charged, giving her a little mobility or enhance the R.