Why Zed got buffed ?

Because the edgy 12 year olds cried he was too weak.

He was buffed so he can escape a certain situation which is forced onto him in most games.

Assuming both players are decent, Zed will have to concede early lane. He has the tools to pressure waves and to poke, but these come at a hefty cooldown cost and remove his only mobility and cc for 24 seconds.

After early laning phase is over and both champions have backed, Zed will return with a Dirk, and the enemy with a Seeker's.

This is where it gets worse. Seeker's is a crazily gold efficient item. Although buying it means the enemy mid laner is delaying their other core items like Lost Chapter, it essentially completely denies any threat of Zed's all in. After that point, all a Zed can do is try to hit all his abilities during short trades, while hoping he can dodge all of the enemy's. He has a small opportunity to roam before the enemy buys a Lost Chapter on their 2nd back, but if this opportunity is missed then the champion is relegated to afk farming sidelanes, hoping the enemy top laner is behind enough for him to win a duel to get back into the game.

Zed can be very oppressive when ahead, but it's extremely difficult for him to actually get ahead without the enemy disrespecting him or making constant, major mistakes.

I can't say for sure whether Zed being viable is a healthy thing for the game, but considering Zoe and Yasuo are both even better, I can't imagine Riot has much problem with Zed anymore.

Fortunately the changes actually nerf him just slightly in low elo, where he's doing fine, and are a sizable buff in higher elos, where he was struggling. Hopefully the buffs don't push him over the edge in either elo.

Looks like come tommorow, my perma ban is shifting from Yasuo to Zed.

There are a laundry list of champions who needed buffs over Zed, he still sees regular play.

Buffed? You think losing the chance to get easly over 50 AD from an ADC or AD Assassin or over 100AD if it was a Jhin is a buff? You better call it an adjustment.

Because against people who actually know how to play around him he was a bad champion.

The amount of bias here is insane, my God...

Shhh dont say anything about assassins, you might anger assassin mains and you dont want them typing angrily at you while waving their walmart katana.

Because he lost his “free” AD finally once and for all.

Compensation buffing his Shurikens makes him more skillshot reliant and the recast range of his W is more flexbility without improving his engage range.

Really a net nerf tbh.