The actual nerf Zed always needed

BobaFlautist·Aug 16, 2016·3 votes·565 views

Make his passive not work on minions.

He has plenty of farm tools in his q, w, and high damage auto-artacks. If I'm bullying hum under tower, he shouldn't get free perfect last-hits on every minion.

This will make him harder to play for the inexperienced, because he won't have the highest fsrm in the game but shouldn't change too much at a higher level.

He can even get compensation buffs in energy costs or something for all I care. I just want him to have to work to farm like every other melee assassin in the game.

4 Comments

ShadòwAug 16, 20161 votes

When a Champ doesn't need more nerfs atm, it's Zed.

Apart from that:

He has plenty of farm tools in his q, w, and high damage auto-artacks. If I'm bullying hum under tower, he shouldn't get free perfect last-hits on every minion.

His auto attack are still melee, when you see him trying to farm, poke/engage on him. And when he uses his combo, make use of his cd's and lack of energy.

On top of that, the passive is scaling with % max hp, which is usually just 20 Damage to minions which is not the world.

AvienalAug 16, 20161 votes

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Make his passive not work on minions.

He has plenty of farm tools in his q, w, and high damage auto-artacks. If I'm bullying hum under tower, he shouldn't get free perfect last-hits on every minion.

This will make him harder to play for the inexperienced, because he won't have the highest fsrm in the game but shouldn't change too much at a higher level.

He can even get compensation buffs in energy costs or something for all I care. I just want him to have to work to farm like every other melee assassin in the game.

Yasuo really needs the nerf more, Zed's just basically another Ninja champion with 'strong' utility because they don't run off of mana. Unlike Zed, Yasuo can effectively kite you with E dashes, ruin projectile drop ins with W and can easily ruin you hard with a surprise Q'nado and R your entire enemy team with R. Akali can basically do the same with all them gap closing dash spam she can pull off, very least with Zed his kit ain't as disruptive as what they bring to a team fight and the only huge CC he pulls is 'death' on one target, himself getting the CC known as Death or just E slowing some people.

The point is when you want to deal with a Zed in a trade, you make sure he already wasted his W and you can likely gap close him if he tries to flash or W swap with the shadow if its still up or even pull a stun on him to either kill or force him to back for a while. Best way to win lane is always to deny an enemy CS or kills, even if you don't get any kills yourself. Literally the majority of matches i seen that are won whether i'm watching a few matches or playing myself, always seems to be decided by ridiculous gap closer champions(which amounts to Akali, Yasuo, Fizz, Riven, etc.), ridiculous op builds (why hasn't korean lucian build been hard nerfed yet?) and even when those same champions can gap close repeatedly, CC repeatedly thru some fudging combo system that doesn't get interrupted if they use other abilities or delay before using it.