Zeratul is broken

Zeratul currently does things too well and is basically a ultra buffed Genji. He has too much mobility and damage, his invisibility makes him immune to the CC point & click like Uther, he has a decent line cleaning, he has CC, he can dodge skills like the Lili E (who is supposedly “counter” to Zeratul) and other skills that can’t be dodged with its 6 blinks and has a very big impact on both Team Fights and 1v1. He has a 20-second CD reset much higher than the reset of Nova and all the heroes with game reset.
A hero with so much explosive damage and an acceptable CC cannot have more mobility than Tracer or Genji. You attack a hero, move away and return immediately to him by clicking on “1”, and if his prison of emptiness is not the best ultimate in the game, it is close to being. He is broken.

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Blinds never countered Zeratul. More than half of his damage is ability damage. Especially if he picks MotN and spams cleaves.

But yeah, he’s broken, but you have to be so good to have a broken Zera that I guess they justify it that way.

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That and him not being a hero until level 16 with both VP and MotN (genji is strictly a better hero than him until this point).

He was way worse to deal with old “anyone can reach 20” xp globes help with that.

Anyway i don’t see him escaping nerfs for much longer then both builds will suck.

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Oh man.
If you think Zera is broken now you should’ve seen him in his prime.

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He is not even a hero until level 7, cant effect a team fight until 10 and comes online at 16. If you have not built up at least a 2 level lead on his team by 16, that’s on you

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Well now zeratul is the king of blinks because he is 4, or I think they are more. In short, the invisible heroes need a rework, I think none of them is well balanced. :smiley:

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I told you he was strong and you didn’t believe me, what make you change of opinion?

By the way, he is not broken, he is just S tier, a rank that shares with several heroes. Broken is something that I don’t thinks this game had before.

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A zeratul killed me being Tracer (?
Okay no, after all if you’re right.

Nope, he has 1 base line and 1 conditional at 7 he can talent in too 1 of 2 conditional and at 20 he can get another. But he trades the best ult in the game for more damage.

That’s a lie, he has two blinks of base line and a third one at level 7. I really don’t know that a hero is seen balanced with a recall every 10 seconds.

He is.

He is very effective even before that level, don’t come with that.

No, his 2nd blink is conditional. It has to be the last target you aa with in a brief period of time. It is also only a way back in. At 7 he gets his choice of being able to reactivaing his w( on landing his w) or worm hole. Both of which are conditional and time sensative. Worm hole is also back to the original blink location. If he is cced oe fails to use it in time it is one way.

You want him to sound like he can blink all ober the place, but in reality at best he has 1 baseline unconditional blink, he gets a 2nd blink at 20 if talented into it. All other blinks are conditional and/ or only a way in/ back in.

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no.

Also, Zeratul came first.

same with Genji and Hanzo.

Zera just doesn’t have stupidly insane power like Hanzo, AND doesn’t get a bunch of free stuff on kills like Genji.

And I think that is better.

I assume you’re translating peoples words for some reason.
But, no. Zeratul is not in his prime. Void Prison is so much worse than it was in earlier iterations.

Also, reporting your post for misquoting people. It might just be a translation thing to make it easier for you. But I don’t know that. And it looks like you’re putting words in peoples mouths.

Especially given that translation can fundamentally change the meanings of the words due to languages not all being the same.

You’re kidding me? Genji and Hanzo are among the WORST winrates in competitive, both need a buff to become viable.
And Genji has less mobility, utility, clean and damage than Zeratul, lol.
I am laughing at people who believe that Genji has more mobility than Zeratul.

That is better. So you can teleport to the enemy attacked or instantaneously no matter how far away.

My browser translator automatically translates the things to Spanish.
SamiSha i invoke you!

I agree, he is wayyyyyy too mobile it’s totally impossible to pin him down no matter how deep he dives it’s absolutely rediculious. He just does whatever he wants with complete impunity.

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great, but I’ve still never seen a forum where that is acceptable behavior. It is quite possible it is considered acceptable here. I have no issue with people trying to translate my language to understand what I write better. (Although given how poorly I can word ideas in my mind, I don’t think translating is going to help much often, sadly). But you’re changing the words of everyone that you interact with via quotes.

It may be 100% legit. But I have no way to verify that outside of translating every single thing you ever quote.

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so… yeah, I agree that zeratul being late game somewhat makes up for his absolute terror, being maybe only some numbers away from balance, but his usualy garanteed mobility is what gets me frustated, he kinda doesn’t need to land his abilities or do some creepy ritual like Alarak to get another blink.

I don’t think he needs direct nerfs, but some counterplay other than absolute focus (which only works fine when Zeratul initiates or/and don’t have a team) would be apreciated.

This game had release Samuro lol.

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who ever said that? Zera is a Melee Spell/AA hybrid Burst Assassin with Stealth