Zed and Talon's Buffs on PBE should be Swapped
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Shadow Assault (R)
bonus AD ratio increased from 80% to 85%
Damage increased from 90/135/180 to 90/165/240
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Death Mark (R) cooldown lowered from 120/100/80 to 120/90/60
Hello, resident mid-lane masochi-- i mean resident assassin player here. I'm honestly pretty happy to see Talon and Zed getting some love since the lethality nerfs, they've both suffered quite a bit this new-season, and i'm tired of LL Stylish complaining about Zed on stream all day lately. Here's the problem with these buffs though, they're entirely misplaced. Talon doesn't need more damage, he one shots you just fine, even without his ult, and with his ult it can be overkill, with Talon having the ability to assassinate some bruisers with a full rotation including his ult and 2 passive procs anyway. What Talon needs is his stormraiders surge back, the new runes suit Talon very poorly compared to before. Talon is very susceptible to skill-shots, and the main way he avoid that is with his ultimate mobility, and in the past, stormraider's surge. So in the least, Talon would benefit from a reduction on his ult cd to let him get into fights and assassinate more often with less downtime.
Meanwhile without pen runes, and the wild overabundance of the stopwatch, Zed players get to feel like they're doing significantly less damage then before, especially with all the shields and the current power of supports. Zed is facing an awful lane phase with the 6 minute stopwatch, which essentially negates his level 6 power-spike around the whole map, and the fact that with his q does almost no damage if it passes through one minion on it's way to his lane opponent. Plus he can't assassinate through shields effectively, if at all, not to mention he has more trouble with shielding than other assassins like Talon or Akali would anyway with the natural delay in his ultimate's burst. Zed has never had that long of an ult cd troubling him anyway, especially with how highly zed prioritizes CDR in his build. If you want to make these types of assassins more effective you should swap their buffs and give Zed more damage and Talon lower Cd's.
