Zoe is being fixed on PBE, but she will still have a design issue

Currently on PBE: -Zoe waveclear is being nerfed -W doesn't drop teleport anymore -CD refund on E is being removed -Q damage is being reduced by like a half 45-105+0.2 from 45-165+0.4 -Passive AP ratio buff from 20% to 32.5% (nearly 50% increase) -W AP ratio buff from 40% to 60% (50% increase) -Base AD buffed by 2

That's good (kudo for doing this after 5 months balance team) Now Zoe no longer only revolves around hitting E and Q, with cd on E removed she loses a huge amount of power budget from only hitting E, and damage is being transfered from Q to passive and W this makes zoe's gameplay much more than hitting only E and Q, because now passive has fairly a huge amount of damage so Zoe players need to be careful at not overlapping the passive too much, using summoners to gain damage is also now much more requiered to deal damage because she can't deal massive damage from only Q anymore

Now we need to talk about an other problem, THE RNG

it seems like from release Zoe's W was like "hey this spell is too gimicked to be good, let's GIMICK IT EVEN MORE by adding an RNG drop mechanic that gives zoe free items and summoner spells in lane" not only the rng is shit, but her W feels so out of place, you have her E+Q+R+passive that function really well together, and then you feel like zoe's W could have been whatever the fuck you want because it doesn't matter.

In my opinion, ZOe's ult should be her W, and she needs a new ult her ult should become her W while getting a cooldown rescaling (like 20/18/16/14/12 seconds) and her W should become her ult, but less gimicked and no RNG bullshit

Zoe's W drop mechanic exists, because her W is unreliable as fuck so it was added to balance her power and not make the spell shit in most of the time (definition of gimick) so to remove it, you need to make the spell reliable, in my opinion it should become point and click like Rubick's ultimate: -20/16/12 seconds Point and click 800 range spell, steals THE LAST summoner spell/item that was used in the last 5 seconds by the target then, you're able to use the summoner spell or item for 240/300/360 seconds OR until you die after using a summoner spell/item, you gain damage and movement speed (like current W, but less damage and movement speed because you will be able to proc it more often due to the spell being reliable)

and that's it, no drop mechanic

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finally, let me just end this by reminding people that zoe's current W should have been what made zoe unique, everyone was hyped by this character that could steal things from enemies

but it just ended up being something that you don't give a fuck about except getting free shit from minions and in my opinion, this version of ultimate i'm suggesting would fixe that because zoe would have a low cooldown summoner spell/item steal that she would revolves around