Ashe needs a change

Prince Ephraim··2 votes·387 views

For a while now Ashe has been kind of unplayed. She's got good things about her, a good ultimate, a pretty strong W, and a pretty nifty and unique passive. But her Q and E are just bad right now. The E just takes so long to charge up for a very brief moment of vision. And her Q just has too steep a requirement to use effectively. The only thing that I honestly want to be changed though, is her Q. Its a pretty strong ability IF you get the 5 focus required to cast it, but getting five focus even for Ashe takes too long. and by the time you have five focus stacks you're already losing the trade and need to be running away. Of course theoretically it can give a lot of sustained damage for her, and it doesn't technically have a cooldown, its too clunky to be used effectively. I say give it a decent cooldown, and keep the mechanic where you can't stack focus til the buff goes away, but let her cast it at 0-5 focus. Increasing the amount of attack speed she gets per stack of focus, but only granting the flurry of shots if four or five focus stacks are consumed. This way it gives Ashe at least some way to use her Q if even just for a quick skirmish. Especially since the cast time on her W stops her from autoing for about 2/3rds of a second.

TL:DR; Change Ash'es Q to give it an immediate impact instead of needing to auto something five times before you can even use it.

3 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer1 votes

They are lowering it to 4 stacks in the next patch, with a couple of other changes too I think

Prince Ephraim1 votes

Thats still not going to make it useable. The main issue that I keep finding while playing ashe is that she only has one useful ability til level 6. And her Q when it goes off is strong, its still hardly worth it. Considering it costs 40 mana and 5 focus for 40% AS and a decent extra effect, tristana gets 110% attack speed for no cost and on basically an eleven second cooldow nithout cdr.

Muted Summoner1 votes

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Thats still not going to make it useable. The main issue that I keep finding while playing ashe is that she only has one useful ability til level 6. And her Q when it goes off is strong, its still hardly worth it. Considering it costs 40 mana and 5 focus for 40% AS and a decent extra effect, tristana gets 110% attack speed for no cost and on basically an eleven second cooldow nithout cdr.

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Cost 50 mana. Currently she deals 0 extra damage with it according to leagues site. Its supposed to add extra damage with the flurry of arrows which it currently does.

Ashe has been changed enough as of late. yeah she needs a few buffs so she falls better in line with the other adcs. But she isn't bad. before her rework she was imo a 1 trick pony that crossed the line of being a boring champion with a very small fanbase who actually played her. Her new Q and Passive helped change her quite a bit. I disagree with Ashe not being useful til 6. Its more like she becomes more useful when she hits 6. Her entire goal before 6 and after is to keep people from running away or chasing her down, with the later not being to useful til mid or late game.

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