Maybe Ashe's last nerf was a bit too much.
Hello! Ashe main here
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Perhaps if there is anyone more in love with the Ashe rework, I'd like to meet them.
However, since the last nerf, she's definitely a lot weaker.
Let me explain.
Back at the beginning of the season, I devised a build where I built 90% crit.
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I loved this build. By the end of the game, 40 - 45,000 damage was about my average. I felt like a carry.
But Ashe still lacked the massive steroids that ADCs like
and
get built in their kit. Every time I picked Ashe in ranked, there was always these guys going "DONT PLAY ASHE WORST ADC". But she is my favorite champion. She's the reason I play League of Legends.
When Riot Meddler announced that changes were coming, I watched the forums and PBE updates every day. I was so excited for them.
When they came out, Ashe was good. She was great, actually. If you played smart, you could hit the enemy team with a volley and flurry away. Not being able to crit was okay. At that point in time, I would build
. I could slice teams in half. About 30,000 damage at the end of a game, but it would AoE. Kinda felt disappointed about that loss of power.
Queue in the nerfs.
Ashe's early game was good. Now I reverted back to standard build,
. Her late game had begun to fade in power, but was still there as long as you could get flurry going. 25,000 damage per game.
Queue in more nerfs.
What? I have no mobility, a slow, and a stun. So now I have to waste my steroid's power by slowly ramping it up, and in that time I'm probably dead. My damage output is at 20,000. I feel like I've done nothing. Even if I am really fed, at most I do 30,000. Just started playing Vayne the other day. I go 30-35,000 on mediocre games. What the hell?
Why the hell would I want to play a no-escape ADC with less damage, when I could play one of the Gods of ADC?
tl;dr
I love Ashe, but her nerfs have made her popularity and win rate go down. I do miss the critical chance, and I understand why bringing it back would be insane.
But maybe a QoL buff might help her stay up with AoE Crit-Rockets
and % Max-Health True Damage
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That buff? I really don't know. Bring back the ability to get her flurry quicker and maybe she will stay with the big dogs. She's hanging on at 50.55% win rate and a 12% pick rate. That's down from a month ago.