Can anyone tell me why Zac needed a rework???

Taliyah Rocks··4 votes·881 views

He had a healthy kit.

A healthy winrate.

He was fun as hell to play with.

He was a great initiator and a dealt decent damage.

He was satisfying to play with.

His passive and spammable W gave him something to do between cooldowns.

Even without his E, the rest of his kit was reliable.

Now he's just a clunky champion with a bit more CC potential, but with a gutted kit. Less damage, less flashy play without his old ult, his kit is now unreliable with both his Q and R being reworked. He's a lot less fun to play and his kit is less flashy. Even when you do land an ult or a Q, it feels so underwhelming.

I'm legit mad at Riot for ruining one of my favorite junglers!

Why did he even need a rework??? I understand Sejuani, they strengthened her gameplay and made her W less boring.

Maokai's new ult makes more sense with his lore and his old ult gave hidden power to his whole team.

But Zac??? I see no point in reworking him? Why did they have to change such a strong and fun initiatior and disruptor into an unreliable CC machine???

Edit: Also his jungle clear suffer with the loss of his AoE Q, and his new one actualy does LESS damage than a regular auto-attacks if you don't put points in it (which you'll do last since you'll be maxing E then W now)

9 Comments

Taliyah Rocks2 votes

All these people crying about tanks being able to 1v1 adc probably led to this. I never understood why people fail to understand that tanks should be able to kil an adc or a mage in a 1v1, that's why they have a team. Tanks are balanced to survive in a teamfight, while still dishing out enough damage to be a threat, otherwise people would just ignore them.

It's not like Zac was OP, he was really balanced. He even saw some high elo plays until they gave an indicator to his E.

MinaZer01 votes

same reason why after Leblanc rework, she was still always pick/ban worthy, they nerfed her W, people found out item 3146 was good on nerfed reworked Leblanc and now feel like reworking her again.. they are doing things just to do them..

Jonny Maniac1 votes

I feel the same, honestly I can see with his ult, some awesome play potential being able to control where the enemy team goes ala the opposite of ryze ult almost with a shorter charge time but shorter range. Q is a harder lockdown potential for early ganks

Just a learning curve im betting.

LegitBusinessman1 votes

They could have just lowered his damage so squishies would stop complaining (rightfully so) about being 100-0d by a full tank build with that kind of engage potential.

Michael7021 votes

This game has so much potential and the devs have ruined season after season.

I thought this season would be great since they were forcing flex in ranked. Me and most of my friends quit playing last season. Few returned. But then Riot makes this game snowbally as hell and doesn't bother to reduce the FF timer. Matchmaking is still unbalanced despite my many posts on how to fix it. I'm not sure if they want games to be unfair so one team can dominate the other and move on to the next game quicker or if they really don't know how to read and comprehend my post telling them exactly how to fix matchmaking.

Variks the Loyal1 votes

They saw room for more fantasy and uniqueness, an iterated accordingly.

They'll perfect it, fret not.

SUPERYELLOWRACEC1 votes

I'm waiting for them to perfect it. He's currently sitting at the most banned jungler with the lowest winrate. That looks like a failed rework to me.

Taliyah Rocks1 votes

I just feel like they had an idea for a new mechanic, and they decided to slap it on Zac even tho he was fine.

They could have given it to some other tanks, like Malphite, who deserves a rework way more than Zac.

OtterlyLost1 votes

He didn't need work. But I do feel like his base damages needed a nerf. He was too tanky for the amount of damage he did and that was frustrating to play against. He didn't need a rework. Personally, I feel like none of the tanks that were reworked needed a rework. :/ Maokai was fine. Sej was fine. The tanks they needed to look at, they didn't even touch(Rammus, Malphite?)

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