Zoe is an Awesome Champion - She just needs a little adjusting.

Phoenix Incite·1/31/2018, 7:36:38 AM·2 votes·503 views

Zoe is a fun, conceptually well-designed champion.

 She brings a style of mischievous style of misdirection play that is very new to League.  She doesn't use invisibility/stealth or similar mechanic, but rather weaves angles all over that a majority of players are simply not used to.

 That's a good thing - League stagnates if the same strategies are how all our champions are built and how we have to play. The game gets stale, and learning to think in a new way to predict Zoe is healthy, however frustrating at first.

 A lot of people are complaining about her sleep ability, but its honestly no more difficult to avoid than a sneaky Lux's snare or slow, and in many ways seems easier as the line width for this ability seems to actually be thinner than Lux's, and a bit more difficult to tell where it's going.
 Also, it only effects *one* champion at a time, whereas Lux's and other snares or similar abilities effect two or more.


Cons?
   A *lot* of Zoe's damage seems to rely more on her nuke - at least in the eyes of the players. Taking a little of this off would help balance out the very very good Zoes vs players still learning to go against her.
  Instead, taking off some of her max Q damage and instead, adding a little more damage to her Passive and Q when its *not* a nuke, would help round out Zoe a bit better while not punishing the good Zoe players. 
  Anyone hit with a Zoe Nuke would likely survive a bit easier, if still a bit damaged.

  It is after all, a fairly high skill requirement to land consistently - unlike say a Zigg's ultimate bomb or Lux Laser. 

 Everything else works well - her W being this really fun, random mystery for both Zoe players and playing against her.

 League will adapt, same way it did when we've had other really wild champion introductions like Bard, Ekko, etc.

2 Comments

HereComeSexyTime1/31/2018, 8:43:43 AM3 votes

Zoe in lane isn't that bad. The almost undodgeable 1shot through a wall from offscreen is personally what does it for me.