I haven't gotten to play with it yet. I main zed and would like to know what you guys think.
For the record, I'm not opposed to tweaking him, he's just fun to play mechanically so that's why I main him. This is for those would call me a filthy zed main, no skill, OP blah blah whatever lol.
has to wait 1.5 seconds for a much weaker escape, so I don't see how it could be that bad.
I like that they are reducing his easy-peasy escaping.
1 second honestly doesnt sound that long to me. If you EQ after you R I feel like that's going to take the entire second, let alone if you're trying to get an auto attack or two off.
Havent tested it or anything, but it seems like it will only make a difference in edge cases where Zed has a bajillion kills and just breathing on you is enough to 1 shot you with death mark.
I have to agree. Usually, I do quite a bit before I tele back. I'm assuming they're looking to force you to be bit smarter about using the mark instead of just being able to flash ult E and swap back away to safety when he's alone against the entire 5 man enemy team lol. It's these kinds of situations where I can see him needing some work. Honestly though I hope they don't do too much to his kit where it affects who Zed is you know? Like he's supposed to be a flashy and slippery assassin, that's his whole theme. But Like I said, I'm in no way opposed to making changes, I just don't want them to mess with what makes Zed the champ he is. I guess we'll have to wait and see how it plays out.
Half the reason you play zed is his mobility, with this in mind adding a uncontrollable 1 second delay to his ult makes him much more predictable and is a huge hit on his core mechanics. When playing against highly skilled mid laners that have point and click easy to cast CC this makes playing zed incredibly vulnerable and predictable. For some mid laners (like annie) that 1 second is all she needs to know where zed will be and kill him with 1 combo. This hit to zed is very disappointing and literally has no counter play on part of zed. Aside from using flash, or W both of which is forcing the zed player to do things he doesn't want to do really limiting what zed was designed to do. Which of course is be mobile and unpredictable. Although, at a low skill level this doesn't seem like much.. Coming from a zed player with hundreds of games as zed this change was huge to me. There were better ways to handle nerfing the champion than hitting his core functionality.
