Zed's appearing possition from his ult should work like Katarina's shunpo ability.

Melkalla·12/22/2016, 1:45:19 PM·6 votes·866 views

Zed Zed's ultimate nerf(0.5 delay for him to swap with his shadow) hurt a lot of zed players since we lost a way to use our ultimate more defensively, but it was an arguably necessary balance change. the thing is that nowadays Zed is way more predictable than he used to be, and if you ult at a wrong time you will get either CC-locked to death by a Lissandra ultLissandra or charmed by an Ahri inmediatlyAhri because you will always appear behind her for example, and a lot of time you will not even consider ulting if your W is not up, since you wont kill the target neither will you survive, leaving you feeling powerless. So i suggest that we make Zed's appearing possition from his ult work like katarina'sKatarina shunpo ability, meaning that Zed can choose where he will appear when he ults(a specific area around his target), this way Zed can be a little more umpredictable while still giving the enemy team a good window of opportunity to respond.

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sit kid12/22/2016, 6:23:42 PM1 votes

I don't entirely agree, and it just feels like going somewhat back to what he was before, with the mobility creep thing, but more against champions like Ahri Lux that rely on casting abilities behind themselves to snare Zed.

And I also think there is something iconic in appearing behind a target as an assassin, and removing that feels like removing some of his identity on death mark.

I can obviously see that he needs buffs, but removing counterplay feels like going back to the 100% pick/ban state. I'd rather focus on toning him a bit down at level 6, and then giving him a lot more scaling through reverting his ultimate to pre-5.22 state, and possibly increasing his damage off his E.

R - Death Mark Damage changed to 20/35/50% of damage dealt + 100% AD from 25/35/45% of damage dealt + 100% AD

E - Shadow Slash Damage up by 5 per rank. 185 instead of 165 at rank 5.