Zed hasn't been nerfed YET despite QSS changes?

Someone like Nautilus or Shen are free to use their shields at the start of a fight and be able to use them again 2 or 3 more times during it.

Tahm players have to estimate whether they can afford to not use his shield and if they think they can't then they need to time it for maximum effectiveness while also not using it so late they die before it activates. Then they have to either finish the fight before it runs out or run away so they don't die as soon as it wears off and then they have no health to make a big shield.

He gets a huge shield value because he can only ever use it ONCE during a fight.

Did you just attempt to justify the other 3 champions by saying that atleast they weren't crowding out mid lane? Last I checked Kindred wins every meta jungle match up in the book and warps the entire game by simply being in it. NO other champion can make a 3-4 man threat comp work with no tank since her ult gives her team invulnerability for 3 seconds with no cast time and her 2-3 ADCs (including herself) will heal out of the 100 HP through lifesteal while the enemy team straight up dies.

You can say Zed is crowding out mid lane (which he kind of is, but he does have bad match ups and can only maybe go 1 for 1 when not ahead while a Brand or teamfight mage can halve an entire team before he dies), but you cannot say Ekko, Malz (even more so than Zed), Kindred are not crowding out their respective roles.

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oh no, i just pick galio and press R when he does, i always come out ahead against zed, the only time i lose against zed is when my team fails to come together or they ignore me, or they're pregrouped and making terrible decisions together without me.

i haven't been more than 0/2 or a 30cs gap to a zed in a long long time. i can now hold my own against your average zed players. not smurfs tho, i just back out and let him free farm and ill take what i can get in those situations and bank on late game team fights.

the average me vs zed match is were both 0/0/0 and someone may have a +/- 15cs lead.

If he was a smart zed, he would just QSS your ult and kill you.

I rather face a zed in lane than a Talon. Talon will instagib you with zero reaction time with only one item. Zed can atleast be fought.

But I would rather get outplayed by Zed and die to him being skillful than dying from blatantly overpowered champions that take little to no skill. Examples of this would be Annie at her highest where flash ult+W damn near 100-0 the entire team and you lost every fight Annie happened to have flash for #bigplays #kappa, or when Garen was heavily overtuned after his juggernaut update and 100-0 anyone that was the Villain while running at a nice 600+ MS to be unpeelable most of the time since he would also just flash QER.