Riot, why do you let this happen

HankFrank123·7/9/2018, 11:27:11 PM·2 votes·924 views

Brand has a 35% lane winrate against Zed. Im sorry, what? Why do you let champs like Zed exist if he has a 65% chance to demolish a Brand? Zed is wayyyy too much right now, and any good zed can just wait out zhonyas or dodge Brand's slow stun and demolish him. This isn't ok. Zed needs to be a situational assassin against immobile mid laners, like Talon. Not a poke-heavy no mana jack-of-all-trades like he is now. Tone down is damage and make him more poke oriented, or up his cooldowns and make him a true assassin. Being such a safe pick is disgusting rn. Come on.

10 Comments

Jamaree7/9/2018, 11:56:45 PM4 votes

Because assassins are specially designed to beat mages, what the fuck kind of stupid comparison is this?

Amorith7/9/2018, 11:42:07 PM3 votes

Uhm, mage VS assassin. The assassin is going to win most of the time, it's called counter picking.

Hethalean7/9/2018, 11:38:51 PM1 votes

As an assassin, I've heard them say sub 50% win rate should be balanced. Also as he is mechnically complex, they would expect his win rate to be lower. He is 50% win rate means balanced.

Nørse7/9/2018, 11:59:09 PM1 votes

Zed goes just about 50/50 or close to it with..... Twisted Fate, Fizz, LeBlanc, Zoe, Ahri, Vlad, Ekko....so really it just comes down to brand being a bad matchup. some champs counter other champs, it happens.

However your graphic is definitely inaccurate. According to Op.gg, the match up does favor zed, but not that heavily. Zed vs Brand is 53.54% zed, 46.46% brand.

Edge of Daybreak7/10/2018, 12:30:21 AM1 votes

Not just any assassin the one who has 2 ways to dodge your one cc and delayed ass w. He is like the dream champion for countering brand. Even if you hit your stun he can ult to cancel your ult.

ankoanko197/10/2018, 11:47:09 AM1 votes

It's very easy to just nitpick something like that. Not saying Zed isnt strong rn but saying ''muh champ loses lane to X champ pls nerf'' like.. yeah? counterpicking? I guess Pantheon is super op too then.