Why I ban Zed in every game now

CarameI Frappe··2 votes·854 views

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If only you could grab him / cc him in time ... ahem

Just had a game where I was Leona and my ADC was Jinx doing really well. She was 7 / 3 / 0 and I was 1 / 1 / 8 at the time. We were stealing their jungle's red buff. She was at full health after, and as we were going back- suddenly a Zed appeared with item 3142 activated. I immediately tried to stop him, but he did his shadow leap before doing R on my ADC.

Once he appeared, me and her managed to kill him (he was 5 / 3 / 4 at the time) and the Zed ult was pulsing. Despite being at half health, she used summoner 7 while I added both item 3401 and item 3190 onto her. Nope, she died ... my stacked items and her summoner spell wasn't enough to keep her alive despite she wasn't almost dead. I'm sorry, but that's a bit ... much in my opinion. Before you say "Just build a item 3157 then!" most ADCs don't build this because their life steal / dmg usually makes up for needing a second of invincibility.

So yeah, i'm going to ban him every game now because he can leap through any cc, press R to be invincible, and possibly escape while your ADC / squishy is going to die regardless of the stacked heals / shields. If it's bad now, i'm worried about how horrible the Assassin's Rework is going to be like.

11 Comments

FaytalityHD2 votes

agreed

SwiftKitten882 votes

i agree bust honestly the way zed ulti works it is better to use the shield during the fight and not for the explosion. becuase the less damage he does during the first the less the explosion will it for.

still that does seem absurd..

Very Hard Engage1 votes

technically that damage still counts towards death mark. it would have to be negated damage through invulnerability. or % effects.

it doesn't matter when the shields are applied. think of shields as temporary health buffs.

what you want against zed is raw damage reduction summoner 3 Soraka (armor buff) Galio (armor buff and ult which also reduces damage taken by 50%) Maokai (20% on ult) Trundle (Q lowers zeds AD) etc etc

SwiftKitten881 votes

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technically that damage still counts towards death mark. it would have to be negated damage through invulnerability. or % effects.

it doesn't matter when the shields are applied. think of shields as temporary health buffs.

what you want against zed is raw damage reduction summoner 3 Soraka (armor buff) Galio (armor buff and ult which also reduces damage taken by 50%) Maokai (20% on ult) Trundle (Q lowers zeds AD) etc etc

does it?? wow.. lame

PermabannedGaren2 votes

What you neglected to mention is that the Zed was extraordinarily fed.

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2315128277/219480029?tab=overview

CarameI Frappe1 votes

I did say at the time of that dive, he was 5 / 3 / 4, so he was a bit fed and only got more fed as time went on.

AHeroNamedHawke2 votes

Except your anecdote is mathematically impossible. Death Mark's proc is based on damage dealt, if he only did half your carry's health and then you brought her up to 75% with shields/heals, Death Mark couldn't do enough damage to kill her

100% AD + 45% of damage dealt, assuming he was at least level 16. 45% of 50% of her max HP is 22.5%, he would have to have as much AD as the rest of her health, with both shields added on

Miraweave1 votes

summoner 3 exists. CC exists.

Zed really isn't that good right now.

CarameI Frappe1 votes

I had summoner 3, but it's kind of hard to stop him when he goes all in on your ADC. Like, I could ult or E but he'll just jump over it and press R. If my ADC gets hurt even remotely after the ult, the pop will likely kill him / her. Zed's just a burden on me in matches.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

zed always lands on your targets back, so keep exh active and ready to be applied and zed drops down after .75s so mash just behind your ADC's back with your mouse and you're golden. he has casting times/animations, exh is applied instantly and he cant afford not to be spamming his abilities right after his ult.

Baby Ghoul1 votes

Play Soraka.

You'll get used to accurately timing your exhausts because normally that Zed is coming for you first. I rarely miss an exhaust on him.

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