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To All Those Players Complaining about Zed

EA14·4/10/2019, 11:51:38 PM·5 votes·1,205 views

Stop crying and get some actual evidence. There has recently been this post where people are complaining about Zed being broken. The author said, "Remember back in season 4 when his combo was W+R+E+Bilgewater cutlass(tiamat)+hit more than two shurikens+auto+ ignite. And you had to do it perfectly." If this was how "fair" Zed should be, then wow. Zed would be the most balanced champion in the game then, huh? He would need all of his abilities and pray that the enemy has no hourglass or zhonyas. He has to build an item that he doesn't need. He has to have full energy. He needs to auto attack, meaning he must risk more time getting cced and killed in teamfights. He would also need to wait three minutes everytime he wants to kill someone.

To the people that agreed with that previous post, go and take a look at some other champions. Name me any other assassin or even bruiser that has to do all this to be "balanced"

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Zero Shingetsu4/11/2019, 12:24:37 AM5 votes

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To the people that agreed with that previous post, go and take a look at some other champions. Name me any other assassin or even bruiser that has to do all this to be "balanced"

Akali. Kennen. Riven. Gnar. Rek'Sai.

Pretty much anyone else without mana to be honest. The only difference is, most of them don't get a guaranteed kill even if they fire all their abilities off in the right order and hit. They just run the enemy back really low (unless they're quite fed or are targeting a squishy). Zed, however...

You see that's the whole point of energy as a resource. Energy champions have shorter cooldowns and generally have to put all their abilities to good use at once to succeed. The tradeoff is that they can do it all again within about 10 seconds, as many times as they want, if they screw up.

Zed is unbalanced because his full combo tends to rip anyone apart without fail, no matter how they've built, unless they have something like Hourglass. Even then, his ult is back up in half the time it takes for Hourglass to refresh. He's unbalanced because there's no risk to his reward. If he screws up, he generally still has you at about half. His ult is targeted and can easily finish off that half, and he can just recast to get out for free. Worst case scenario, he can shadow-flash back to safety and wind up for another go.

The only other champion that has that kind of reliable mobility is LeBlanc, who's limited by mana.

Titanium704/11/2019, 12:49:48 AM4 votes

Dude.. today I've seen my GA/BT-Shield/KightnsVow-Link Draven getting 100-10 by Zed with WEQ - both at 16, both at 4 items. That's simply stupid...

Zed is so hard overtuned it's not even funny - and that's why he will get nerfed next patch.

bluefire mark 24/11/2019, 12:06:44 AM2 votes

Exactly! As i stated, name one assasin that has to use their whole kits combo, a summoner spell and an item or two at most to kill just one person. You can't

boricCentaur14/11/2019, 12:28:37 AM2 votes

Ok evidence lets see one he is going to be in a worst state then before the buffs and he was not good before so yeah that is basically all the evidence you need.

But wait ill give you more riot has recently been buffing a lot of tanky champions and if the meta shifts away from squishy champions and back to more tanky champions you know who is not good anymore ZED wow it's almost like having a meta when no one armor makes assassins look very good or something.