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If you pick Zed you are crippling your team at this point

NERDSMASHER5001·7/20/2015, 5:13:20 PM·4 votes·867 views

Let's see here:

  • Is an AD assassin, which means you're shit out of luck if your top/jungle does not own/is garbage at one of the select few AP champions that can fill their respective role. This is especially crippling in Tank/Devourer Shyvana meta

  • Takes skill, relative to most other champions at least. He is harder to play than just about every other mid laner currently.

  • item 3139 invalidates a pretty significant amount of his damage while item 3157 invalidates his entire kit

  • Actually respects the "assassins deal single target" damage rule whereas mages do the same/more damage he does while having massive AOE burst Ryze Annie Orianna Katarina

  • Has no meaningful CC ( inb4 MUH SLOW)

explain to me again how this champion is so "CANCER OP" when he is so pathetically outclassed right now

13 Comments

Ratbert7/20/2015, 5:44:03 PM4 votes

item 3157 This invalidates every delayed burster you idiot.

TeemoJenkins7/20/2015, 5:14:44 PM2 votes

Haven't seen a Zed complaint thread in weeks... until this one... so... no one is complaining but you?

umbraˉ7/20/2015, 5:16:41 PM1 votes

Pretty much.

Stiv12347/20/2015, 5:38:39 PM1 votes

I also think Zed is rather weak at this point, but one thing that bothered me always with him is why he is considered a "healthy assassin" (those two words should never be together, but w/e) ? Sure, half of his damage is delayed and you can counteritemize him easily, but

  1. He has resourceless waveclear/insane farming and pushing potential from a safe range. Mana champions can barely keep up with his pushing and lose out on a lot of CS as a result. If he loses his lane, he can just push out and go roaming bot. This gets even worse due to
  2. He forces you to rush a Seekers Armguard. You have no other choice, he will kill you for sure if you dont. However, if you buy a Seekers, you have no mana regen, which further hurts your pushing and general lane sustain.
  3. He is generally extremely safe for an assassin, and that should not be the case. Assassins are supposed to be high risk - high reward champions and have a weak early game, but since anyone with half a brain can last hit easily with his passive, he does not even need the kills. He just farms up and snowballs from there on.

Hes not OP, but he is also far from being in a healthy state.

Linthe7/20/2015, 5:47:58 PM1 votes

This is just more of the balancing merry go round. Zed fell off. Rito will toss him back on at some point.

The Pale Woman7/20/2015, 5:54:35 PM1 votes

Leblanc requires a high amount of skill in her current state to play mid-lane, I can argue this thread apply's well to her also; Zed counters her along with the whole rest of the entire mid-lane roster... I am pretty sure she has it worse.