Seriously, I know you guys hated her, but come tf on. She's literally unplayable right now and she isn't healthy balance wise. All riot had to do was nerf her numbers, not all this extra shit that puts her on a balance beam between stupid op and instant trash tier.
Champion should be removed, to be honest.
Fun fact: Despite being dumpstered, she still has the highest ban rate in the game.
So she's almost LITERALLY unplayable.
https://twitter.com/RiotMeddler/status/965036324192362496
Expect 8.4 leaves her quite weak. Would rather risk overnerfing and fix after at this point though
Meddler stated theyd risk over nerfing at this point ...
Honestly she was a mistake in teh first place to be released fthey cant just ignore the fact they reworked nid due to her playstyle of play safe and be more rewarded.... they took that idea and put it on Zoe and gave her extra tools with her W .... how they thought Zoe would be balanced upon released... due to zoes kit and how it works .... she will either be too strong or too weak .. and thats the issue all they can do is adjust damage too good and shes killing champions safely with little risk and doing this multiple times... too weak and shes outclassed by any other burst mage or if they nerf the CD of E or Q then the same applies outclassed by any other burst mage... theres nothing i can think of right now that will balance her..... except removing the mechanic of play safer and be rewarded more ...
Unfortunately, because she shows up in LCS, in team play and is good, it'll probably never be good again. Predicted this would happen just like Kindred. It's a shame, I was excited for both their releases more than any other champ in the game, and both ended up getting burned to the ground.
They even said they were going to do this. Hit all the problems at once, then evaluate and fix numbers afterwards. You get more accurate balance changes if you separate your efforts to nerf and efforts to buff. If you're doing both at the same time then you have to guesstimate the outcomes and hope for the best.
I don't have a problem with this, the champion was a huge problem, now she won't be and Riot is free to buff her appropriately without pissing off the whole playerbase.
