Whats Zed's problem now?
I started maining him this season, and now I can barely even get him.
Imo he's not OP safe, can farm well, get kills, but not really OP, he burns ult and is useless in team fights.
Someone explain whats so broken?
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well zeds always been really solid in an experienced players hands. But now since 
cant stop his ult well he has even more free reign to destroy adc's. so against a very good zed your team might as well not have an adc or any other squishy champ.
He's strong in the meta. That's it honnestly
He insta-kills anyone he wants with zero counterplay?
zed can always do his job. if he kills the adc it doesnt matter how "useless" he is its a 4 v 5 he can do nothing but walk up the enemy and auto attack and he still be doing more then the dead adc. thats why he is broken at the moment he currently has no counterplay for the adc they used to get it in an item but now the adc must relie on a team mate like 
ect to save them or they are just instant fucked.
every other sort of assassin has to put something else to kill an adc.
only has engage.
only has engage.
must relie on outplaying his way out threw his e and hourglass if wishes to survive.
must get a reset or is useless.
target must be isolated.
i cba to list every assassin but they have a clear weakness the adc can abuse zed at the moment doesn't and saying "play better" is not a counter.
its simlar to give 
a permanent ult and someone just going "cc her she does no damage then"
For me, it's that I've played against him enough times now I'm sick of the matchup. I'm tired of his laugh while he Ults, I'm tired of him dashing away when he screws up an engage, I'm tired of his shurikens, I'm tired of trying to rush Hourglass and mana items at the same time...
Do me a favor and play anyone else. I don't care if you're a LeBlanc and you kill me 15 times before laning phase ends, it's still a better experience than going against a Zed right now.
He was already borderline op before qss nerfs, and now hes just pick or ban. He can one shot the adc, and press r to escape even if he didn't kill them.
The lack of counterplay is the problem. AD champs have pretty much zero chance against him now. There's a reason he is perma-banned now.
With QSS it made him completely useless once it's built lol that was just a qol buff, he's an assassin that does his job is the qq I'm hearing
He's an assassin that has great wave clear, infinite harassment against mostly mana based champions mid meaning they have to resort to basic attacks when he just has to wait for energy to refill, and he has tools to poke you and / or kill you with a way out that aren't matched by any other.
LeBlanc can poke a lot and has high burst but she is mana based and needs to get ahead and roam a lot first. Kassadin takes a lot of time to scale up, is a mana based melee champion and has no ability with over 180 base damage.
Compare those two assassins who also have high burst and mobility and only Zed can deal a lot of damage throughout the game and dive the back to kill a mage or ADC with a move you cannot avoid if he's in range. Throw in a few abilities and maybe a basic attack and that person is not making it out alive.
All through laning phase he is poking, harassing and chunking you unless you can dodge every single ability of his while building both armour and mana items while he just builds damage. The comparable items for Zed vs mage and mage vs Zed are heavily in favour of Zed. Hexdrinker easily beats out Seeker's Armguard for stats with that magic absorbing shield.
This whole QSS thing is just silly. Why should an ADC be able to survive an assassin in a 1v1 scenario? Assassins are meant to kill single targets. You catch an adc out alone as an assassin great you just did your job as an assassin. without actually outplaying that caught out adc should be dead. Period. A little bit of team work goes a long a way. Whenever I play zed, if I see a janna I know its going to be tough to kill the adc. Janna makes zeds life a living hell as long as the janna is a competent player who actually protects the adc.