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They did... they addressed her E CDR and her Q burst alongside taking away TP from her W.
The baron buffs may be a little insane but the elder drake buffs are reasonable due to it being subsequent elder drakes. (Which the game should be pretty much decided by then)
Doesnt change anything, it just made her un-viable. She will still be frustrating to play against.
They literally in their patch notes said word for word " we expect Zoe to land on the weak side when 8.4 hits. " This means they know she will be weak but are too lazy to do proper tuning.
Followed by "But we'd rather hit as many frustration points as we can in one go and address power later, rather than continuing to draw the process out." Translation - We have a new champ rolling out and would rather dedicate our time on that so for now lets gut her and deal with it later.
Then the third and key point: "That's a lot of nerfs, and while Zoe is frustrating to play against, her win rate numbers aren't reassuring."
Lets break this down, Her win rate is not reassuring meaning that she is either not performing well overall or they are happy overall where she is WR wise before this upcoming major nerf. That means performance is not the issue, the issue is in the playstyle. That is still the same so basically her WR is just going to tank.
Now for the second part "Frustrating to play against". She is not going to suddenly feel less frustrating to play against because of Q,E change, removing tp and lowering numbers. Her core kit is still going to be frustrating and at 45% CRD you are not going to see a noticeable difference on E's CD. So that part didnt get addressed it. wanna know whats going to happen now? They removed another spell from minion drops meaning the increase chance of damage spells dropping and with the boost to AP scaling on W you will see more poke damage from W going out and actually being more frustrating to play against.
Overall they just nerfed her because they were too lazy to fix the actual problem with her and ppl are like "these are some good changes" when even Riot themselves basically admit that they are pretty much rush jobs they will fix later.
The While the Dragon changes are W/E the baron buff is just going to increase the snowball and increase the value of Baron to the point where nothing else matters really.
Doesnt matter if you or your team plays well if the losing side manages to win 1 team fight they can baron and end the game and if you are behind and the enemy gets baron you may as well ff now and with how fast the games have been going people are pretty much getting it as soon as its up so you won't even see an elder dragon anymore.
because of his utility. Healers will be destroyed by any mid or top whose roaming, even if they are good players.
