He should be rewarded for playing risky. His shadow should do 50% damage less period. He should be rewarded for getting up close and landing abilities not for shadow spamming abilities.
Just a suggestion/opinion. What do you guys think?
SwiftKitten883 votesi agree zed damage is an issue but i think the real issue is his escape. zed has free wave clear and forced the oppoent to buy
to stand a chance in hell. where as he is free to buy w/e he wants. in the mean time he is nearly impossible to gank becuase of his shadow and he can tower dive with immunity.
zed has no real weakness other than they fact that he takes some skill to use. but even in BRONZE people have enough skill for him to be OP.
Dangerous Man1 votes"SKILL" As in Ahri skill? Like skillshots and a targeted ult? That's like saying Morgana needs skill lol and she's my main.
SEKAI3 votesBuff mana regen back would do too.
Jefftiffy2 votesThat's not a change. Change means shift without loss of power. Not a flat out huge damage nerf.
Katarina and Zed aren't problems. The mana famine is.
Poptart Evelynn2 votesThat's not a change. Change means shift without loss of power. Not a flat out huge damage nerf.
Katarina and Zed aren't problems. The mana famine is.
A change is a change. Your talking about something else mate.
metaworldpeace102 votesI love how people are complaining about zed now when back in Season 3 he could never miss with his w>e>q combo. I honestly think zed is pretty balanced, the problem is the fact that mages have no early game counter for him. Need mana regen/CDR to counter his push? Well you can buy that in morellonomican, but you give up armor, so he can all in you and win most trades post 6 and snowball lane. Wanna build tanky first? You have to rush seekers armguard to stand a chance against his all in. The problem? No mana regen/CDR is in your build path and you're forced to farm under turret and lose precious amounts of gold and the ability to roam. The solution? Make a grail version for mages that specializes in armor instead of mr.
67chrome1 votesHe should be rewarded for playing risky. His shadow should do 50% damage less period.
Woah woah woah woah.
Rewarded for playing Risky is his Shuriken and Sladh do double damage when he uses them. Causing his shadow to do 50% damage is punishing him for playing safe.
Ya got to word it correctly. There's a reason you get bonus XP in WoW from being well-rested rather than having a penalty for not resting (even if the numbers are exactly the same in either case).
I'm pretty sure a lot of un-fun champions and item choices actually succumb to this trap. Sword of the Divine probably would have been picked up by a lot more AD Casters if the active read "you're next 3 auto-attacks apply bonus damage equal to 100% of your AD, disables crit" rather than "you're next 3 auto-attacks crit". If you want to push a certain thought process, it's really important to communicate the idea rather than simply applying mechanics that support it.
PrinceOfStorms1 votesIMO Zed could actually be balanced by giving him a god-awful early game like pretty much every other assassin in the game.
Maybe his Razor Shuriken could cost 90/80/70/60/50 energy, or deal significantly less damage at early ranks, but still do the same amount when maxed?
Death Mark should only count damage dealt by Zed's abilities and autoattacks, not things like the 
active.
The free AD that he gets for levelling his W should also be deleted. No, Zed does not need 20% more AD simply for levelling his escape skill.
Schteltzer1 votesno