Nerfs 9.8 and a little rant/talk about assassins

Hello everyone welcome to my topic, first of all I want to say that im a plat player who loves to play assassins since they're the most fun champions in league in my opinion and the most complex, I think that an assassin is supposed to rewards you for doing very well and learning him/her properly from inside out and learning each number and the damage they need to kill someone, they teach you how to perform combos how to synergize abilities, they require a lot of muscle memory, and they teach you how to punish a player for making mistakes, while also punishing you hard with long cds and no engages/escapes after making a mistake using your kit.

So I made this topic because of the patch 9.8 notes, just read that zed is getting nerfed, and the nerf is as follows :

-10 damage on Q all ranks W cd increased: From 20/18.5/17/15.5/14 To: 22/20.5/19/17.5/16

I don't know about you but this seems like a very "Interesting" nerf to zed, since as we know they changed him by removing his AD stealing passive, and redirected that power into his Q and W, reducing W cool down and increasing Q damage by 10+ a 10% ad ratio increase.

Now we arrive to patch 9.8 and we see what riot plans to do, nerfing him by removing all the compensations to make up for the AD passive removal.

Im sorry but this is really dumb, I personally almost never lose to zed nor ever bother on banning him, theres so many tools to counter him, you get a free stopwatch, you have bone plating and hp scaling runes, a keystone that can get you more hp, you can stack armor on your runes, up to 10 armor if im not mistaken, which you might think its not a lot but it is given that you have those flat stats as soon as the game starts, so this is how a laning phase goes against zed if you're smart.

At your first back you should have a minimum of 600 gold, you build 2 cloths against him= 30 armor, this kills his laning phase, even if he knows how to trade and lands all his Qs, this literally kills his laning phase and you can snowball off of that and even ask you jungle to camp you since you're kinda tanky, if you're a mage you have even less problems since you get a tabs then you get a seekers or you just get a seekers as soon as possible, not losing ap, not getting punished for buying it, you are free to buy that item and have no problems. If you do this you should AUTOMATICALLY win the lane, even if you're bad you should not get outtraded by zed by ANY and I mean ANY means.

A lot of people seem to complain about him, and to me if you complain about a champion thats really not as broken as vayne and riven who have less problems killing you and are OP, you're really stupid, lets not lie to ourselves, riven and vayne are very strong, and I was laughing so hard when I read that somebody on riot who made the post said that zed "Crossed the op line" without saying vayne and riven. Funny right? So zed is op but riven and vayne are not, riven gets deaths dance, reduces the amount of damage she takes, she has very low cds, she doesn't have any resources to manage appart from cd since theres no mana and no energy nor hp to manage, abilities with no cost, low cds, a Q that goes down to a 4sec cd, and the fact that she can heal and spam a shield every 2 seconds after she has spear and pops that passive, insane damage with autos and abilities, and huge mobility, along with cc on a champion that designed to be an assassin.

Vayne on the other hand, an adc who sucks really hard early game, but scales super well as the game goes, has the ability to be invisible an entire fight, so she cannot get hit, plus having a support who can shield her or grant cc for the team, a passive that deals extra damage the more health you have, and a champion that is reliant on auto attacks with a very low cd on her mobility ability, an E to disengage or engage and get a free kill, and her ultimate that itself is already a disengage with the invisibility.

And now we go to zed, a champion were you need to land skill shots to kill someone, you don't land them you lose all ur damage, plays a huge factor on the laning phase, and theres a huge difference between someone who knows how to play him and someone who doesn't know how to play him properly, I can tell you how many times I've beaten zeds who try and first time him on ranked games and get destroyed in lane because they think he's easy to play when in reality he's super countable, now I agree with you, he melts people when he's fed and doesn't need autos, but isn't that what an assassin is supposed to do when he's fed? he should have way more advantages than you if he's super fed, he should be able to one shot you even if he doesn't land everything, some people don't seem to be fine with that, I personally am, when I lose to a zed I don't get mad, he played well, he knew how to snowball and made the least mistakes he could, you have more against you than in favor of you when playing him, the runes I mentioned before, the free stopwatch, zonyas, GA, Barrier, Exhaust, Steraks, Flash, ultimates to make you invincible, healings, cc. Theres so many ways to counter him. I don't think the nerf thats coming for him is fair, not only are they nerfing him, they're deleting the compensations, the biggest complaint about the champion was that W cd was too long, and its the main source for you to trade, I think and I know that 20 seconds are enough and doesn't need a nerf there, I would have agreed with the nerf if they decided to increase the cool down on the W and ignored the Q and didnt do anything to that, but they're not doing that, they're nerfing damage and increasing cooldowns.

Less damage, more cooldowns, would've been fine if it was less damage only or more cds only, not both, and not only that but theres also more indirect nerfs as some of his counters seem to be getting buffed this patch, bramble vest is getting a buff.

This shows me and you once more, how much riot hates assassins and how they really show to be incompetent when it comes to balancing their own game, they don't put this all on testing ground, they just throw it at you without considering it, it happened with positional rankeds, we had to play 6 weeks with that ugly system that we all knew wasn't working since the first week, its been happening over and over, they nerf something and buff counters to it, they don't do one or the other, they do both, thats why updates make the game more unbalanced most of the times instead of fixing it, they nerf and counter by buffing counters even more, an example, they buff armor and nerf damage, so armor becomes broken, what would be the best solution? Buff armor, not working? nerf damage a bit, do it softly and careful or you're just gonna break it. But they don't seem to like to do that.

The harder a champion is, the less rewarded you are, the easier the more rewarded you are, most mages I find them easy to play and more rewarding than assassins, I don't play them because I don't find them that fun, I like to climb by having fun and by outplaying people knowing it was fair and that he/she had the chances to kill me, kleptomancy Kayle, basically an auto attack based champion, is super rewarding lategame. thats just one of many examples, and the sad part of all this is that riot won't even care and the balance team will care even less, we have seen it for years now, they make the worst decisions they can, they don't seem to test changes before launching them, now this sounds like im saying they don't, I do think they do, and I have a small respect for them because I know they are trying, but their decisions are just so questionable, doing stuff that just doesn't make any sense most of the times, and whenever they rework a champion its broken as hell when it launches on live servers, theres been cases were that champion is broken for more than a month.

Worst part is thet they didnt even change that much stuff and some of the decisions for this patch are pretty questionable, I focused on the zed change because to me, and im sorry to say it, I know its the same for many not only zed mains as people think they are, are stupid. A lot of people are biased about this champion, if you are an adc you probably hate him, but in reality its so much easier to counter him than u think, and its really sad that the community is like this, they love to complain about champions saying they're op when they do not know how to play about them, if you want to downvote this do it, you're free to do and click wherever you want, if you want to give your opinion or feedback about this do it, I think its good to not keep these type of things to ourselves and we can be better as a community, in the end we are the ones who make the game work, not riot, even tho its their property, but their game works because of feedback that they seem to ignore a lot.

Sorry if this post was disrespectful to anyone, I agree it was a rant and im sorry if you got offended, anyways...Good luck and have fun,