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Daily reminder that Zed is anti-fun at every stage of the game and overpowered

Registeel1234·1/13/2016, 4:15:46 AM·6 votes·1,166 views

There's no fun playing against him. During laning phase, he has spamable poke and amazing waveclear with W-Q-E combo, is really safe with his W, can easely farm undertower with passive, can easely towerdive with ult and can roam a lot easier than most mid laners. He has great base damages and scalings on his Q and E, while W increase the effectivness of thoses scalings. once he gets to lvl 6, he can basicaly kill you everytime he has his ult, unless he messes up.

You and Zed both obtain lvl 6. Since he has a spamable poke, you lost a lot of health trying to farm. even if he misses his Q, he'll be able to retry a little bit later. He ults you and kill you. Everyone will say that you just have to buy item 3157 or item 3140 . The problem is that item 3157 costs a lot of money, meaning you can't have it before he get's fed off your a55, and item 3140 gives you magic resist, which is useless against him.

You may try to stay away from him and avoid getting hit by him, while missing CS and experience, but he still got his W and his ult to get to you in no time and kill you If you happen to outpush him under his tower, he'll still get most of his farm because of his passive. And if, somehow, you manage to not get killed by him, he simply can roam a lot easier than you and get kills from somewhere else.

When you see him, you either have to pick malzahar or hope that he's terrible.

Even in teamfights, he got so mobility that he can dodge a lot of CC and, because of his damage being AOE and having low CD, does a enormous amount of damage against multiple targets.

It's jsut not fun to play against him. Rito should really do something about him, there is near to no counterplay to him. It's just not fun to play agaisnt him

7 Comments

Milodic Mellodi1/13/2016, 4:49:49 AM2 votes

Just played a game as ADC against Zed. We ended up winning because I split-destroyed the towers, but after Laning Phase ended he killed me 5 times before the end. Not fun when you don't even have any time to make a decision...and our Katarina fed, so we couldn't even count on her to do the same.

IcyPepper1/13/2016, 4:17:19 AM1 votes

Dude, I'm no huge fan of Zed but I wouldn't go that far.

There's a reason Zed players often split-push in the late-game. His laning phase is a pain in the ass, but his late-game is pretty average for assassins. He's going to assassinate people, that's what assassins do.

Vanjie1/13/2016, 4:41:15 AM1 votes

He just received a update and the new AD item is coming. As usual they buff champions that really don't need anything . . . and leave other ones high and dry.

xl Kirito lx1/13/2016, 4:44:13 AM1 votes

He has more counter play to him then most assassins. Dying to a Zed either means that they significantly outplayed you, or you made a mistake. idk. Might be just me, but I'll take a Zed lane any day. Since they removed the W-Q trick, it's really not hard to dodge the shurikens. In teamfights, he just dies. That's why he split pushes half the time.

I mean, yeah, a good Zed will destroy an average X player, but, just because Redmercy can 1v5 people, doesn't mean Zeds OP.