User blog comment:Contractas1/Ashe - The most ignored concept of a carry?/@comment-5211639-20140107190313/@comment-2112140-20140108090949

Don't really agree with this. Expensive IE? Before it was 4080 gold sure it gave more damage but still the price decrease was better. Nerfed AS items was an indirect nerf to Ashe but with the introduction of new items like Zephyr, which grants a lot of very useful stats it doesn't mean Ashe is much weaker. Ashe is really weak? Well I agree no steroid is a flaw when you see Quickdraw Attack Speed Rapid Fire Attack Speed Final Hour Damage and other steroids. As for trading power while her stats are some of the lowest as you have stated, Ashe isn't really a trading champion since she almost always loses them that's why most of the times you see Ashe poke from a distance rather than be aggressive and trade like other ADCs. Barely helpful ultimate? Now that's pretty redundant to say when you have a stun+a strong slow. Even if it doesn't stun for long it still has the very strong slow attached to it afterwards which is still good enough to land a few attacks in or to disengage/engage easier. Well take a look at other ADCs late game do they have stuns and slows on 3 of their skills. The standard Vayne has a pushback(stun) and slows if she gets frozen mallet and also botrk active. Caitlyn has a slow on the net and immobilize on a skill that's a trap and her net is her escape either way. Jinx got a slow and her immobilizing traps. Well ADCs nowadays have CC but still not comparable to Ashe's since their CC has a cooldown while Ashe's has no cooldown other than your attack time and mana. In a teamfight while other carries provide raw damage, Ashe provides much needed utilty and a lot of damage too which is why she shines more than your other ADCs yet she's ignored. I'm thinking of playing a lot of Ashe if I do manage to recover my account since smurf accounts don't really show stats too well.