PSA: Zed is fine, stop crying for nerfs because you got outplayed.

420 hehe xd·3/20/2016, 6:23:32 AM·13 votes·1,031 views

Zed is an extremely high skillcap champion.

If you die him you either A) made a mistake or B) got outplayed.

Rendered absolutely useless after building a single item item 3157 item 3140, relegated to split pushing while his enemy AP mid is actually able to group and assassinate targets from range with hard CC and low cooldown abilities.

14 Comments

LegacyDAP3/20/2016, 6:24:08 AM9 votes

I do not agree with this post. I also think that you're using very specific things that make Zed weak (kind of) to attract crowd attention.

xl Kirito lx3/20/2016, 6:56:26 AM6 votes

Post on your main. Then you might have some credit to your posts.

warpenguin5553/20/2016, 6:59:40 AM6 votes

well hes getting nerfs anyways. sucks to be you

LankPants3/20/2016, 6:46:16 AM4 votes

Zed is an extremely high skillcap champion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGn25URIss8

Crett3/20/2016, 6:47:25 AM2 votes

Leblanc has a high skillcap, Riven has a high skillcap, LeeSin has a high skillcap. It's not a matter of how hard the champions are to play. It's about their gameplay pattern. It's a fact that when these champs get ahead, they are extremely obnoxious to play against.

I've never had an issue with their power level, but I low-key wish champions like this didn't exist, and people won't stop complaining about them unless something about them inherently changes (which will never happen).

There's no easy solution. With all due respect to our community's Zed mains, Zed's annoying. Not OP. Just really really obnoxious.

There is an easy way to get less people to complain about Zed, however! You don't have to stop playing Zed, or play him any differently!! Just Ban yourself from CTRL+4 and CTRL+5 You're doing the world a Huge Favor.

Chaos of Unseen3/20/2016, 6:28:36 AM2 votes

i agree on u bro. Read my post and you will agree to me and as a zed main i have spent lots of time learning him who is high skill cap like u said.

Aaravos3/20/2016, 11:26:34 AM2 votes

Zed is not harder than any assasin in the game right now with that safe laning phase. Only Zed mains think he is and this is why Zed is hated. You are not faker just because you can play Zed well in his current state.

Blazing Tenshi3/20/2016, 7:24:27 AM1 votes

Riot knows he is too strong. They just haven't done anything yet.

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Usual disclaimer: Win rates, pick rates and ban rates are useful information, but we don't believe they should drive balance decisions. They should certainly be part of the conversation though, particularly when broken down into more applicable stats (e.g. win rate for experienced players over sufficient patches to generate a large sample size).

With that out of the way we do think Zed's too strong at present. The things we're currently looking at as problems to address are his damage early and insufficient windows when W is down for his opponents to play around. Possible solutions there right now look like lower Q damage below rank 5 (55-235 instead of 75-235?) and higher W CD below rank 5 (22-14 instead of 18-14?).