Why are we still banning Zed...

Why are we still banning Zed?

Laning Power/ Meta Shift Zed's laning power isn't as over powered as it used to be when season 6 changes where introduced and that led for Zed being a power house of a pick since thoughs changes led to the meta shift of Late Game Picks/CC Picks/Tanks there over powered back in Season 5, and how in the beginning of Season 6 where the game switched into a more of a Mid Game Picks /Snowballing Picks/Good Laning Phase Picks. These changes let for Zed to being a powerhouse since he is a

-Mid Game Champ

• He can snowball the Mid game by his amazing gap closer and his assassinations
• And somewhat good laning phase also increased with thunderlords( being so good on Zed for laning harass )

He was super good in the meta.

But Zed has gotten direct and in-direct nerfs to his laning power.

First the Zed shurikens nerfs where the dps is down, but the the most shurikens you hit the more dps you do. The reason why Zed was so good before the nerfs was since he can just ult someone, Q&E someone and there dead due to the Zed ult pop. Now that the average Zed player can't do that that since the average Zed player wouldn't be too good at Zed. Zed's laning Phase was so important since he would need to be able to snowball, but now that his laning phase harass is now lowered, it makes it a lot harder to kill someone, Zed is a snowballing champ, if its harder for the average Zed player to snowball, then the champ is basically useless since a average Zed player wouldn't usually know how to team fight or play from behind, but for the Zed main this is also very f*cking annoying, but they can play around the more shurikens hit the more dps they output. Still a nerd to Zed's laning phase overall.

They nerfed the Zed ult pop since of the new Duskblade coming out, so you can't burst someone as much as you used to before. Right now Zed's Core Items are Yoummu's and Duskblade. -Youmuu's = 32000 (Usually's Zed's First Item) -Duskblade = 3250 (Usually's Zed's Second Item) #FakerBuild

It takes a whole 3250 gold and with Zed's first item delaying Duskblade, also including Pots, Boots, and situational items. Even though this item was ment for assassins, but Zed took it the worst since not only did Zed have to take a Nerf for the Duskblade not to be OP on him, since the pops stack, hes initiation power that his ult pop had can't be restored without the duskblade which takes a lot of gold if you can't get a lead, which is harder since of the nerfs to his Q and in-direct nerfs.

His Shadow (w) cool down has been nerfed to 22 seconds at first rank! Another reason why was so good at laning since this was much much more lower than 22 seconds, so Zed can get a lot of burst in just one combo, and you add Thunderlords back then, that could nearly 2 shot a person. Now with this, a average Zed player can't just use his shadow to get free harass, he needs it to ESCAPE! He is so gankable with this gank and that could keep Zed from snowballing the game.

And the in-direct nerf to his laning was nerfs to thunderlords since that make Zed become so strong in lane since of this W>E>Q combo and adding the Thunderlords, that could nearly half shot someone. With nerfs to that, that lead Zeds Combo to be a lot less deadly.

He isn't good cause hes AD/Highrisk/Needs Time to Learn well

The number 1 best Midlane champ right now is Malzahar with a 55.29% winrate, and that is a direct counter to Zed. Also Malz has the highest win rate in the whole game.

Galio has the second highest winrate with a 55.25% rate cause of his crazy high base damage and being able to counter all AP Mids, which the top 10 best winrates are AP!

Link: http://champion.gg/statistics/#?sortBy=general.winPercent&order=descend&roleSort=Middle

Legit the top 25 highest winrate mids are AP, and there are only 3 AD, and 2 of them have below 50% win rates.

**Overall Zed ** Winrate: 46.67% Banrate: 81.45%

Ps: I did no edits. I will check later