zac is OP

CW Forg1ven·Sep 17, 2013·4 votes·1,067 views

yep

8 Comments

RiotZenonTheStoicSep 17, 20137 votes

Why?

lnraelSep 17, 20132 votes

Zenon where is your flair
and by flair I mean riot flair
ninja edit: and now you've gone and made me look silly within two minutes of my post.

RiotZenonTheStoicSep 18, 20131 votes

It's what I do.

Míley DyrusSep 17, 20132 votes

Riot has a history of making tanky disruption champions too strong. Couple that with Riot's difficulty in balancing mana-free champs, and I can understand why he's a little off balance, but I admire your continued small adjustments to his playstyle.

Since Zac has been released, Riot's made multiple small changes to his kit so he still felt like the same champion. Hopefully this is the trend they'll stick to with other champion nerfs (see previous Akali/Diana/Olaf nerfs for Riot changing too much at once).

RiotZenonTheStoicSep 18, 20131 votes

We think he's currently pretty strong in top lane but no longer that strong in the jungle. We're addressing that further with adjusting where his chunks land when he uses a spell and an enemy champion is around them. This should make it easier to deny Zac healing from his passive.

ValentenSep 18, 20132 votes

I think the main issue with Zac being a laner is his ridiculous sustain. In the jungle his sustain is in check because he tanks the minions so he has to have his sustain but in lane he doesnt even neeed to worry about tanking minions most of the time so when he gets poked all he has to do is cast a spell and then regen it with his passive.

Regardless of the changes you make to the bloblets being easier/harder to pickup/deny the current 4% max health regen I think it is is probably a tad to high for laning phase. then late game once he has 3k+ health he is really hard to get out of team fight or even just take down unless he doesnt have any resists or a team focus him down.

Another issue ive noticed with Zac is that his base damages are pretty high for a tank, sure he doesnt scale very well but his main source of dmg his w is % health based and is on a very short cd for the amount of dmg it does over the time of a team fight.

Capt CarmineSep 17, 20132 votes

I feel right now aatrox does everything zac does but better. Zac no longer has his big burst and the change to his ult makes him much easier to kite.

however aatrox has a stronger slow, an easier to hit knockup, and if he gets cutlass for a second slow you cant push him away, and aatrox has a much better passive than zac. I dont know how many times I have seen aatrox proc his passive and then just easily q away when it pops. I feel aatrox is at the point where he gets too many free stats in his passive ult, and even free lifesteal off of his w.