For the love of God Riot

Lugg··6 votes·361 views

Nerf and/or rework Zed.

He is definitely the most broken champion in the game. (Which is saying something since there are several). I just finished a game where a Zed literally won the entire game by himself even though he was the ONLY fed champion on his team. The rest of his team had 19 kills and 42 deaths combined. We had a fed Anivia, fed Ashe, and fed Volibear yet he was still able to literally kill our entire team. He finished the game 26 kills with 4 deaths. We hit him with literally every CC we had and he still literally won the game by himself.

I know people (Zed mains) are going to be replying to this saying "He's balanced" and "His win rate is low" etc. But the only reason his win rate is low because so many people that don't how to use him properly, play him. Once a player has mastered Zed, he can literally take him into ANY matchup with a very good chance to win. It is so frustrating to make great plays against him and still get outplayed due to the champion being so broken.

Kassadin and LeBlanc have had balancing nerfs and are still VERY strong, it is way past time Zed joined them. (Please don't bring up the very minor nerf Zed got to his attack speed, it made pretty much no difference)

11 Comments

Mandang02 votes

Idk about his absolute power, but his play pattern is very frustrating to deal with. I wish Riot would give players more of a handle on punishing Zed's mistakes or give Zed more pronounced weaknesses.

As much as Riot's claimed they don't like relying on hard counters, it sorta seems like that's where most of Zed's counterplay is placed - pick someone/buy something to specifically counter his ultimate, even encouraging players to build an MR item to deal w/ an AD caster...

Lugg1 votes

I agree, there needs to be some sort of counterplay. Zed has WAY to much in his kit that allows him to get away with mistakes.

Jamaree1 votes

Zhonya is an MR item?

Jamaree1 votes

What account was this on?

Lugg1 votes

I would tell you, but I would then get flooded with hate mail.

Jamaree1 votes

So you won't disclose your account, the one you are posting on is bronze 5, and you don't bring anything except conjecture to say a champion is OP, seems a bit sketch.

AkabaneKun1 votes

They buffed BOTRK lel.

Lucentile1 votes

Did your team:

A) Save Exhausts for Zed? B) Build some defenses? C) Burn CC on Zed? D) Protect the squishies when Zed inevitably jumped them?

Zed is a strong character who has great mobility to dive and attack people. He MIGHT be too strong in some cases, but if he was beating your entire team, 1v5, I guarantee you -- someone was doing something wrong. Probably at least 3 someones, maybe all 5 someones.

Lugg1 votes

The only exhaust we had for him was on the support and he didn't get a single one on him that I can recall. But the support was only so-so to begin with.

The Volibear had a Thornmail and Warmongs. That alone should pretty much allow him to solo Zed, but it didn't make much difference at all. As for the others, not sure.

He dodged a lot of them, but we got him with the Voli throw and slow a couple times. Ashe slowed him quite a bit and got him with one ult which allowed us to get one of the kills on him. Anivia stunned him a couple times that allowed kills and had some slows on him as well.

We tried to protect, but he would always jump on whoever was lowest and pretty much take them out instantly.

While no one on our team was a pro, the point is that not a single champion in the game should be able to pull that off. That goes off the toxic scale.

Annunziato1 votes

I don't find Zed to be that frustrating outside of the laning phase personally. If you're laning against him in most cases you can go either item 3139 or item 3157 depending on what you're playing and completely mitigate his Death mark. Also for him to actually assassinate anybody he needs to be in your team's backline. Leaving a lot of the new Tank meta to cc him making him just a squishy caster in the middle of your team.

Zed can snowball out of control, but at the same time it doesn't matter if your 20/5/11 if you can't do anything since you're cc'd from the moment the fight starts.

Lugg1 votes

Zed is always frustrating if he can catch anyone alone. He will kill that person 90% of the time.

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