Ziggs is NOT in a good place right now

First off, I'm a support and AP mid main who play mostly champions like Orianna, Ziggs, Lux, Morgana, Sona, Janna, Lulu, and Nami.

I've noticed that over the past while Ziggs has been severely underperforming for me. He received countless nerfs due to being "annoying" (yet at the same time Fizz remains untouched?) but was nerfed so hard out of unviability. That Q AoE nerf was the final nail in the coffin. He can no longer hit targets adequately anymore, and dare I say, dodging the bombs is so pathetically easy it's laughable. He's a poke mage, but what's the point of playing him if 95% of all the bombs you throw are going to miss? Why not play Xerath? Or Jayce? Or heck, even Kha'Zix, who has a poke along with a reliable 100-0 burst?

His mana costs are also SO BAD. Like Zilean-levels of bad. If you have 40% CDR and spam all of your skills, you will notice that you will run out of mana far more quickly than most of the other mages. The problem is even worse now because mana regen items has been gutted. Athene's unholy grail is no longer the item that it was. You have to build a tear and a Nomicon to be the "bomb-spammer" and if you do that your damage spike will be delayed so much you'll be forced to farm passively for the first few levels.

He's too weak now and needs a slight buff. Revert that Q AoE change or reduce some of his mana costs. At the moment he's a bad Xerath and a bad Jayce. And having an escape means nothing because it's unreliable and if an assassin gets close to you you're dead anyways.

And the 120 second CD ult. Just for comparison's sake, that's more than double the CD of Lux's ult, which is 50 seconds.

And before anyone says "Good Riddance!" keep in mind that I would rather face Ziggs 100x more than the current cheese assassin mids that are so disgustingly popular.