Zed Ultimate OP 8.4 craze has to stop

WhoFedThisZèd·2/22/2018, 8:58:23 PM·13 votes·3,482 views

Now before we start it's not another annoying crying post about "Zed OP 8.4 pls revert the buff or nerf him wtf rito are u smoking", I'm here to stop that whole nonesense right here right now. Zed 's ultimate with 40% CDR has a ~36 sec cooldown, with 45% using the rune from the Inspiration tree Cosmic Insight makes it a ~33 sec CD, wtih Ultimate Hat along the CDR , it goes to flat 30 secs, this buff made Zed able to have R almost instantly after a fight, but as a Zed player for 3 seasons I don't think this is a big deal, early you get nothing, R level 2 -10 secs, but you will have 25% CDR, so you still have a ~60 sec CD, don't let Zed scale good into late and snowball, if it's not enought Zed can be very easily countered with the following:

  1. Banning, simple as that, if you can't play versus him, ban him :)
  2. Counter picking with Fizz , Talon, Akali , Vladimir , Kayle and Yasuo, versus decent/good ones even the best Zed players can be screwed hard for the rest of the game/camping with a tanky jungler and asking botlane with CC to roam mid for a 4 man gank, not many chances to survive if he's pushed the lane, ask me how I know.
  3. CC, Zed is a farely squishy champion, kneeling down to the power of CC, have a high CC comp and you should be fine, unless you don't react in time and your already dead, Morgana Blitzcrank Thresh and Jhin , Caitlyn are good picks against Zed IMO, of course you have to look if the matchup is favorable for your lane. If you are so scared of the Zed buff might even consider dodging that game, CONSIDERING that he wasn't banned.
  4. Low elo Zed players shouldn't be really feared, since they wont really get any use out of this buff, higher elo will use AND abuse this.
  5. Conclusion - Zed more active during team fights, scales a little bit better, always has ultimate with 45% CDR late game.

P.S. I'm not against the ones that want the buffs reverted cause I'm an OTP, just giving you some tips how to play against the buffs and proving you that there shouldn't be this scared. ^^

45 Comments

Cocho2/22/2018, 9:04:47 PM8 votes

The ult cooldown in higher elos mean nothing because it's not like situations where you can ult people off cooldown later in the game is actually a thing. This champion's winrate falls off hard the later the game goes on because of things like item 3190 item 3109 item 3107 summoner 3.

Honestly I think it's better low elo because games are longer and people misposition more.

Handin Out Naps2/22/2018, 10:19:41 PM5 votes

Zeds ultimate isnt really an ability you spam off cd. I mean if given the opportunity it can be, but thats on the enemy team. The real buff to zed this patch was the stopwatch nerf.

Darkin Hybrid2/22/2018, 9:05:30 PM4 votes

I don't like Zed mainly because of how safe he is. He feels like Leblanc 2.0 being able to W and R and then come back to the W location or R + W and then juke the enemy to come back to the R location.

So the fact that his ultimate cooldown as you say will have around 30 seconds is not going to make it any better trying to pin him down when he just teleports from one shadow to the next.

Some of you who will be reading this will tell me that his W has a long cooldown. Well that isn't really a problem when his E refunds part of the cooldown based on the amount of enemies hit.

Guess banning him is just the best, not the most fun champion in league even if he is considered to be the most "healthiest" assassin of all.

Vapor Wave Vibes2/22/2018, 9:07:59 PM3 votes

Talon isn't a good counter pick for zed, or a counter to zed at all

Steel Blossom2/23/2018, 12:18:55 AM2 votes

...tbh I just miss the the bonus AD on my W. I don't want to rely on my enemy building AD to have more AD myself, the way I don't want to rely on my enemy being a retard to be viable at all(cough Talon cough cough).

IT3etlWEXJ2/22/2018, 11:43:54 PM2 votes

This buff still won't make Zed OP, that's how weak he is right now.

T4underbolt2/23/2018, 4:21:05 AM2 votes

You are an OTP yet you don't know that champion you play is in very bad spot and the fact this buff doesn't help higher elo/experienced in game players which was stated by them. Lethality changes cucked both zed and talon. While duskblade is overtuned item it doesn't change anything because now everyone have huge sustain plus ADC has the support with heal and shields ready to save ADC from fed assassin in one click.

Poske2/22/2018, 10:56:52 PM1 votes

Now compare it to 15 second cooldown ultimate on Le blanc.. Idk mate

I can one shot people from further

He always felt like a retarded melee version of ad le blanc. Except for release zed I LOVED THAT

But yeah very few can play le blanc

Call Me Nana2/23/2018, 1:12:00 AM1 votes

i will always ban zed because of his complete needless synergy with both duskblade and electrocute. now this shit.

Rysophage2/23/2018, 3:56:02 AM1 votes

Zed is trash compared to the other assassins what. Unlike everyone else stopwatch/hourglass actually cucks him.

RainXBlade3/3/2018, 4:36:30 PM1 votes

It's only 36 seconds at max rank if you have 40% CDR. I honestly think that's balanced because shields come up much faster than Zed's ult.

Another factor to consider that getting to that 36 second cd on his ult is at level 16, which is at late game, which is also where Zed's effective power falls off as well.

Diablo v22/23/2018, 5:36:34 PM1 votes

xd zed is hardcore bad and all the nerfs that happen when The assasin rework happen needs to be reverted and w cd should be lowerd

Malix Farwin2/23/2018, 9:50:49 PM1 votes

The thing is with how well his performance is in relation to his difficulty to play Zed was doing quite well before this buff anyways so buffing Zed at this point was what the confusion is about.

GigglesO2/22/2018, 11:01:12 PM1 votes

Having CD's aren't fun. Obviously no one should have any sort of cd at all.

Ahri Baka3/3/2018, 4:30:58 PM1 votes

As much as I despise playing against Zed , that Ult buff changes nothing for me , I do complain about Zed being strong for me as a mage , but that ult buff is nothing , I mean everytime we recall and come back to lane he gets his ult to kill me anyway , a small buff isn't a thing