I know I will get hate for this but...

I don't think Zed is that bad. He isn't the easiest champ in the game to play at a high level. Compared to other assassins (I'm looking at you Fizz and Akali) I find him a lot less broken. Akali will QRE you from a bush and you will probably be dead and even if you do fight her she has invisibility and a ton of spell vamp. Fizz now has a built in DFG on his ult Simply because riot realized he only need his basic abilities to kill everyone and wanted people to use it for more than a slow. Zed at least has some counterplay unlike Fizz and Akali. Now bring on the hate.