Do any of the other Ninja's (Akali, Kennen, Shen, why not Lee Sin not a true ninja) counter Zed or is it just skill match up?
The other one I was wondering about is Talon skill, what I found was Talon can counter him with his silence on his cut throat. Now that Talon no longer can cc off that skill, does he still counter him just because if Zed ults you Talon ults Zed?
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In my experience it's a difficult match up in lane, but in teamfights he basically shuts down the shadow ninja. Mainly with his taunt.
Talon can still counter zed due to more reliable harrass and a supperior level 3 power spike
The talon kill combo at level three assumeing u used your Rake/w properly the first three levels, hopefully at this point they are atleaste 75 percent health, the lower the better
E, W, Q, Ignite, bleed and ignite will then kill then, make sure u get in autos. His ult also counters zeds ult. Zed can still out play you, but the favortism goes toward talon
Ahri can also do well against zed, for you can canel his ult with ur charm if u immediatly charm behind u, she also has the harrass to match his.
Akali/kennen get smashed
Yasuo ties with him
Ekko is a solid counter through his ult and more reliable harrass
