For those of you asking to nerf zed's laning phase.

Mooing Kev·4/13/2015, 11:26:50 PM·2 votes·811 views

Zed's main power spike is post 6~mid game. He falls off more than other assassins late game since his kill potential in team fight is probably the lowest out of all the assassins(Weak up front burst unless you are extremely fed). If you nerf his laning phase(wave clear/farming) he's gonna have a shit start like any other assassin but is gonna fall off. Meanwhile the talon/kat who had a "rough" time in lane got his/her items and starts deleting champs with just his/her eqw rotation while zed can't do shit in team fights since the mages got their zhonya and the adcs running qss with their sups ready to exhaust zed's ass. He either hopes he has a beast team that does a lot of damage so he can clean up or attempt to split push with his nerfed wave clear. Also there seems to be a quite of few who seems to complain about his "safety". Honestly id rather have an assassin who goes in and does huge up front burst and dies than an assassin who goes in and attempts to kill one target but is forced to swap out since his main burst takes 3 seconds which is way too long of an exposure period for an assassin. Pretty much every other assassin can deliver their burst between 1-2 seconds. Not to mention all the other assassins have significantly bigger aoe. It disgusts me seeing a leblanc simply W R and doing so much aoe damage and being able to just swap around. On top of that all the other assassins are point click delete while zed's main damage other than his ult is a skill shot(easy to land regardless still can miss). So lets put all these aspects of zed together and think: is zed's laning phase and safety too much? If you take away these 2 strengths of zed what does he have? With this new tank meta where a tank jg,top support is quite common i don't even bother picking zed anymore in ranked. All that is left is the mid and adc who both build items that completely negate my assassination pattern. I've said this numerous times before but zed is a niche pick often used as a counter pick and is not op/broken/overwhelming.

15 Comments

Nucleophilic atk4/13/2015, 11:29:41 PM7 votes

Zed is in no way weaker than other assassins.....and his lane is complete bullshit lol. I don't care that he is stupid strong in lane, but being stupid safe as well is just...dumb.

ChargeItDownMid4/13/2015, 11:51:00 PM3 votes

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Mat7itan4/14/2015, 12:15:54 AM2 votes

Or people could just learn to play against him. I've heard zhonya's (typically a core item on ap champs), qss (pretty cheap and good on adcs), and hitting him with hard CC (exhaust is good) works really well against him.

SwapShadows4/14/2015, 12:36:21 AM2 votes

Notice how most people that complain about Zed have like 200 games total

but lemme finish my tea

Mooing Kev4/14/2015, 1:39:52 AM1 votes

I like how out of the people who so far commented here the ones who think zed is fucked up are not even past silver except one guy. Clearly have much to learn about this game. This leads me to believe all the zed qqers on boards are mostly bronze and silvers who got rekt by a mediocre zed.

DrNova4/14/2015, 12:51:11 AM1 votes

Wrong in so many places I dotn now where to begin.

ModAcademy Kayn4/13/2015, 11:29:12 PM1 votes

People just hate his safety while 1v1'ing not to mention his absurd poke. It'd be better if we couldn't be chunked down constantly by them Shurikans. Better yet, don't touch the damage and just slow the projectile speed a tad so it's less about predicting the Shurikan and more about dodging the shurikan.