Riot, maybe you should stop doing this whole Roster Update thing, seeing that you fail every time...
Let's just see...
Winrate going freefall. Tbh Zac was more or less fine, I'm not sure why you changed literally anything. Sure, every champ needs some touch-ups every now and then, but Zac was pretty much at the very bottom of that list.
Powerbudget all over the place, now can be opressively strong, but without actually feeling strong OR rewarding when playing. I played her a lot in the past, either rank 6 or maybe even seven (can't remember this late in the evening/too lazy to look it up), but I doubt I will play her ever again.
Incredibly succesfull. At botlane. As support. So good that they might gutt him for all other roles, HURRAY!
Now let's remember the juggernaut debacle:
No further comment needed, really.
No increase in depth or anything that would have made him more appealing to play, just powerbudget into the villain mechanic, making him effectively useless against anyone else.
The fact that people dont like to play Dominion shouldn't be an incentive to shove it down their throats.
Almost nothing changed, Q close-range dmg reduce was good, Q heal is maybe bullshit, but overall he has barely any change in functionality, and that was why he was considered actually somewhat successfull when it came to the changes.
Or them mages:
All hopes of ever being able to walk down mid were destroyed in an instant, as Riot now wants her as support
Also a support now for reasons none knows
Pretty much no change in functionality. You still dump all spells on the enemy, even in the same order as pre-rework.
Was weird before, is still weird. The tank everyone ignores until 10 seconds in the TF when he can actually use an empowered Q. Teamfight might be long over before that tho.
Or the ADCs:
So problematic it had to be reverted.
Oppressive uninteractive long range and massive safety changes into... the same thing, expect traps deal no damage and she got more of them. Still one of the most picked ADC, and one of the most draining to fight in lane.
Got the chance to jungle. Suddenly was better then the dedicated ADC jungler
, while also outclassing tanks at some point.
Got a gimmic. Apart from that barely any change.
Riot, maybe instead of having people waste precious time and effort with these failed projects, how about you open up a thrid ChampUP pod? That way you can catch up on champs that REALLY need the help and increase the speed at which the whole cast gets modernized, effectively reducing the need for such weird Roster-Updates.
Every time there is just one champ with barely any changes that was considered a "success". if your goal is to get only one good result, you might as well aim for full VGUs, at least then that one champ will get enough attention to truly shine .
- when it comes to THESE, Riot does a real good job. So it makes even less sense for the roster-upgrades to be so horrificly bad every single time.