Duskblade & Zed

Master Yiseeks·2/12/2016, 2:43:56 PM·2 votes·1,733 views

Okay so I changed my name into a Zed tribute because I've been in love with him since the end of S3. All throughout Season 5, where assassins, especially AD assassins have been bumped off for quite a while, even then, I was on my Zed grind...

Biding my time...

And here comes season 6! Time to put my 300k mastery points to the meddle where assassins can finally shine! So I change my name - new season, new name, new mentality!

I was finally gonna do it. Main Zed my way up.

What happens?

Duskblade! Of course I was excited but, I didn't really think twice about it.

As someone who's been maining Zed for quite a while, I feel like I can say that Duskblade is not a big of threat on Zed as it is on other champions.

Shaco can double proc Nightfall. Xin Zhao is scary with it, regardless of the fact that it can't scale with the crit. Rengar can delete you that much faster now.

I've even played with it (maybe twice out of the past 20 games because Zed's banned nearly always now) and don't think it's all THAT good for assassins. The build path is a little awkward and Nightfall is only most effective when it can be timed correctly, otherwise it's just overkill after overkill with someone like Zed unless the TARGET is tanky.

I think it's a matter of time before people realize Zed isn't the champ to ban.

I also admit I may be heavily biased.

...Stop banning my Zed. I've been item 3070 item 3070 the past few days.

He was in a good place before. Take out Duskblade I don't care! I just wanna play Zed without getting banned 4/5 lobbies.

7 Comments

alasarcher2/12/2016, 3:13:21 PM3 votes

I have been saying this for 2 days now. Zed is champion that benefits LEAST from Duskblade. Now i know u all gonna look at this and think "WTF IS THIS GUY TALKING". But think about it. Let me give u example:

Now you are playing Varus mid. And opponent pics Zed. How are you gonna counter him? You will get item 3140 of course. Now think, QSS removes both Zeds ultimate and Duskblade buff. Making Duskblade just stats item, and effect utterly useless. But lets say u are facing : Talon Rengar Khazix LeeSin Shaco Twitch AND SIMILAR. You aint gonna build QSS against them, so their Duskblade will actually be effective.

VendettaX42/12/2016, 4:57:15 PM2 votes

i think if riot needs to fuckin nerf a champion (zed) due to an item (duskblade) then they need to rethink that item completely

Kr1sys2/12/2016, 5:00:59 PM1 votes

Any good Zed player doesn't benefit from Duskblade and the Nightfall passive, you only benefit from the passive stats and how its so cheap. It will get nerfed due to its raw power through either stat reduction or cost increase and then just be forgotten a la Atma's Impaler

Papa Slothy2/15/2016, 7:37:55 AM1 votes

it's lackluster at best