Unpopular opinion: Zed shouldnt be nerfed

ChallengerSoraka·Jul 27, 2018·3 votes·664 views

because he takes skill to play, and has healthy counter play.

the same people downvoting are the same that hate

2 Comments

NaymlissJul 27, 20183 votes

Ehhh, saying he takes skill to play would be a real stretch. His poke is a simple line skillshot with a little range extension, as well as having the AOE on it. After that, he doesn't really have to micro anything. His all ins don't really require him to do anything special, just press r then mash your abilities. I'm not saying he has a low skill ceiling, it's pretty high, but he also has a relatively low skill floor.

Don't believe me? Compare him to champions like Riven Azir , and hell, even compare him to Karthus . Champions who have to micro and predict extremely well or they will lose their fights to the point where the best players in the world can't execute it correctly all the time (https://clips.twitch.tv/WiseEncouragingDragonPJSugar ). How about champions who have to animation cancel every one of their abilities and their autos in order to be a somewhat decent champion? A champion who's main damage source is an easy to dodge skillshot?

The point is, zed doesn't quite have the skill floor other champions have, so calling him "high skill" wouldn't quite be fair to them. I'm not saying zed is broken either, he has an easily exploitable levels 1 and 2(so long as you dodge his skillshots), so if you can manage the wave properly you can etch out huge leads early, and past that as long as you don't get hit by poke you won't be in a position to get 100-0'd assuming you have a defensive summoner spell and play around your defensive ability's cooldowns(don't just waltz up into the wave as lux after you just blew q and w)