Zoe's quite strong at the moment and has established herself as the queen of winning the early lane and then falling off a cliff. We're looking to nerf her this patch while also throwing her a bone when it comes to her late-game scaling.

Zoe struggles with wave clear more than most mid lane mages. We want this downside of Zoe to still exist, but the extent of the downside has some room to be lessened, so we're removing the damage reduction to targets beyond the first struck by Q.

In this patch we want to give Zoe a few tools to make her easier to play. We’re removing the scaling need on the MR shred, which effectively doesn't do much before resists are built anyways. We’re also upping her base health regeneration since Zoe is a very squishy champion that has to opt into close ranges early on to trade reasonably. This should allow her to be more consistent in lane.

Like other burst mages, Zoe hasn't been having the most fun after the Durability Update. We’re adding a little boost in damage when she hits her Trouble Bubble and helping her grab a few more spells in mid-to-late game for teamfights.

Zoe may actually be very very old, but she often doesn't outgrow mana issues like other mages do. Since she tends to build full damage and doesn't synergize well with Tear, we're helping her out by reducing her mana costs. This should especially help her waveclear after lane phase, which requires lots and lots of Qs as the game progresses.

Zoe was putting way too many champions to sleep, so we increased her E cooldown back in 9.6. Now that she's no longer as much of a nightmare, we're reverting the nerf so she can contribute more throughout a fight. Prepare for trouble. And make it bubble.

With a new item landscape, it's time for us to add some pizazz to the pool of minion drops from Zoe’s Spell Thief. In doing this, we also removed Redemption because it offered frustrating power across the map when dropped.