Zoe E can now One-Shot with Stormsurge. Most broken item ever?

What seems to be a pretty widely missed thing about the "new Luden's" (Caster's Companion) is that the passive is now WAY better for control mages or sources of continuous spell damage. Old Luden's charged all at once, before being able to be used, but Newden's charges the first in only three seconds. And the important bit: The first charge doesn't suffer from the 0.35 multiplier penalty, meaning that landing the first charge multiple times is much more effective than landing the same one multiple times (6x for 6 procs vs 2.75x for one fully stacked proc). The burst effect is still really valuable, though.

21:20 The reason Zoe Q scales with level is cuz it's 70% of her power budget and it'd be too vexing to balance it with standard rank point scaling

Hey everybody! Welcome to the next commentary today we are playing some Zoe versus Yasuo on the PBE to test out the new item’s on…her

just wanted to say that you are an inspiring person for my day-to-day live! thanks for everything pekin! <3

26:35 There is the E one shot for you guys

I'm pretty sure any instance of non-persistent (non-dot) damage pops the sleep's double damage. Stormsurge should qualify, which means it had its damage doubled, plus the horizon bonus.

Not sure if you mention it later but storm surge can crit with shadow flame, the synergy is pretty good

There is no way they don't nerf storm surge on release. Its just so much added burst for poke mages who could chunk before and now they can kill. 35% really isn't that much of a threshold

this was awesome! I'm excited for the new items now

been watching for about a year but don't comment much, and i would love to see full AP/hybrid kench with the new mage item changes! i'm a kench main but with demonic embrace being removed, i feel like his hybrid build specifically was kinda gutted

I love these Zoe Videos, made me become a zoe main, she's just too good

23:55 the new titanic hydra active is a true auto reset tho! maybe theres a good combo to be done with it? like empowered auto + hydra w + instant empowered auto

pekin you make this slog of a life less unbearable. love you dude

Zoe can become an E oneshotter with stormsurge-casters synergy because her E procs off stormsurge. Shadowflame is OP too against semi-tanks and bruisers if you want to finish them off from 70% health (it has especially high synergy as it increases the damage of storm surge and and the true damage proc, but also has anti synergy in that few scenarios have E do 35% health AND the the Shadowflame execute is what finishes them off)

PekinWoof I hope you've been getting the energy from my virgin sacrifices. Love the vids!

Riot PBE servers used to only bc in Chicago, but now they seem to be split between California (somewhere in cali) and Chicago. Sometimes my ping is around 50's-60's (chic) any other times around 90-110 (cali) I'm located on East Coast. Normally get around 53 for live servers in chicago which is where the NA servers are located currently.

Can’t wait to see you play AP kogmaw on this patch ❤

PBE servers are in LA, so people specifically in the western US get pretty low ping. My normal sits around 50, and PBE is 20 maximum

Don't even know for how many years I've been following but you are the only decent (that I follow) and amazing Zoe player! Would even say 90% of Zoe I've got it from you. Just will never understand how u can be soooooo chilled ...OP

Hey Pekin, AP ezreal must be nuts with these AP items