Zed will never be as fun or exciting to watch/skillful, gone forever, in-depth explanation of why
Just to get this out of the way, You can't split vs these guisnoos champs you just get destroyed, or vs tanks since theres no lw. Even when his damage issues are fixed, the era of splitting to win is long gone, You have to team-fight at least a few times in this meta to close out a game. As a high dia player teamfighting with zed required being able to wq (dash to w) auto+e or wqe (dash to w) auto onto targets that you could proc your passive on then ulting to avoid being instagibbed by their team or a various mixture of using this combo and with/without flash. Trying to straight up r is way too predictable you just get ccd (no instant r back) and gibbed. its hilarious trying to wq dash auto+e with this new animation, its predictable and you dont have time to do it quick enough befor being cc'd now since you have to do the full animation. I'm sure riven would be a much different champion if she couldnt animation cancel. bork and last whisper was zed, gonezo, qss is cheaper, theres a ton of tanks that are stronger than ever both in the jungle and in top lane and even one or two in supp. Zed was ALWAYS a weaker pick if he wasn't being used as a counter and even then if he didnt snowball like HELL he would be outscaled by zhonyas, It's a very feelsbad moment after playing zed and comboing with him feels so yucky now. He's never going to be as fun as he was, even in the era of the tanks or whatever it was he was fun but that's gone forever and it makes me sad. sorry for the rantings