Zed Buffs Were Too Much--From A Former Zed Main
Zed is one of my first champions, and he's always had a special place in my heart. Although I don't play him too often, and I've always sucked at teamfighting with him, he has been and will probably forever be my go-to champion for a hard lane.
Now, in the preseason of S6, Riot, being the dicks they are, removed both Brutalizer AND Last Whisper. And yes, they REMOVED Last Whisper; this dipshit
is a mockery of my favorite item. But we don't care about me; we care about the buffs to Zed that followed the death of two major AD items. See, back in the days, Zed took heavy nerfs to his W missile speed, and the shadow from his Death Mark was changed in an unfavorable(at least to me) way too. I always thought that that was too much nerf, and that Riot should've hit ONE of the two abilities instead of both.
Yeah, they did that again, but this time in reverse. I still remember reading the patch note like it was yesterday; W range? not bad, not bad; W speed? Sweet! Percentage of Damage dealt during ult at early ranks, OK--wait wtf? 30/40/50%? What the actual fuck? Does Riot have ANY idea how big that is? In League of Thunderlord, that almost enough for Zed to literally 100-0 a lane opponent with ignite, as soon as he hits level 6. I immediately thought that Zed was gonna rape and cum on everybody he comes into contact with again, and I wasn't wrong. Being a huge fan of Zed, it is inevitable that I'd play Zed sooner or later. And, for some reason, my normal MMR is just fucking over 9000, and I go against diamonds every single game. As one can clearly see by checking my match history in lolking, I have a Zed game against a diamond 5 Orianna, a diamond 5 Karma, and a Diamond 1 Talon. And please believe me when I say that I survived every lane. I was down a bit in CS because I'm an unranked piece of shit who can't last hit to save his mother's life, but I survive each and every lane against these diamond players. I actually started to shit on the Orianna after lvl 6, until she started roaming and her fed teammates began to surprisebuttsex me everywhere I went. And I should NOT be able to do that; seriously, I could be playing fucking Baron, and these people should still be unloading their diarrhea all over my fucking face. I knew that the Zed buffs were HUUUUGE the moment I read patch notes, but even I didn't think it'd be so bad.
I love Zed, I really do. He's a fun champ, a cool champ, someone who is extremely versatile, extremely maneuverable, someone with limitless possibilities. It is because I love him that I ask Riot to remove one of the buffs on his abilities; I'd rather see my Zed in a mediocre spot, than have him facefuck the entirety of the League's champions and then have Riot rip him a new asshole with nerfs once the new assassin item comes out. Because they'll have to do that once the new assassin item comes out.
If you read all of that, good job. If you didn't, I can't blame you.
tl;dr: Revert at least one of the Zed buffs, or he'd be release Leblanc 2.0 with that new assassin item.