This New Zed Ult...

Çhåryzård··1 votes·9,422 views

"Reaper of Shadow: Zed's R now "reaps the shadow of the strongest foe slain under Death Mark, gaining X attack damage (5+ 5/10/15% of victim's attack damage"

Ok so let me see if I understand this correctly...

Zed hits 6 he now has ult

So, to actually reap the benefits of that passive on the ult, he has to ult the 1 squishy damage dealer on your team who builds ad who now has no counterplay to the ult besides "try to stay away from Zed" which isn't always possible, especially against a good Zed

He not only gets the kill but now gets % AD, and if he killed the adc he now has extra ad damage to continue killing with ults

Oh and if you, the adc, buys more damage and he kills you, the % AD updates, so if you die he gets stronger and if you try to make yourself stronger and he kills you, he gets even more stronger

I feel like...something like this has the potential to become too strong, especially if adcs have no counterplay to it like how ap midlaners have Zhonyas which gives them armor AND the stasis

This makes adcs more of a target than they already were, but with no way to stop it besides staying out of or near a fight when Zed is up

I can't tell EXACTLY how strong this would be until it is out in game and I play against it but I feel like something like this could either work nice or go really really wrong

7 Comments

Handy Sandy 2 votes

The AD he gets doesn't stack, and the only good ult he can pull off is on your adc and he has to kill them to get the damage off. Tell your support to exhaust or heal yourself. You have some lifesteal as an ADC right? Hit some minions. If it doesn't work, assassins are supposed to counter ADCs anyway. By the way, even if you buy more items after he killed you with his ult to increase your own AD, the bonus AD he gets doesn't update so he must kill you again.

Trolosaurus1 votes

This whole update seems like its trying to drive marksmen out of the meta

Miror B1 votes

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This whole update seems like its trying to drive marksmen out of the meta

Which is rather ironic considering how much people bitch about how ADC's get special privledges and such. Don't get me wrong, I'm baffled by this idea as well (as it looks as if rito is trying to kill the rat population by filling their city with sabretooth cats), but in a way it "kinda" makes sense.

Çhåryzård1 votes

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This whole update seems like its trying to drive marksmen out of the meta

I feel like if they were to do this, then they need to give adcs an item that is like QSS so they at least have some way to counter the ult, because if ulting and killing the adc over and over is going to give him buffed damage then they need to have a way to counter it

GULAG 4 U2 votes

False, they are trying to make it easier to play against assassins.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

It's garbage. It will never give as much as ad in the past and his kit has been severly nerfed with almost no compensation.

ChaddyFantome1 votes

And in exchange, the Free AD on his W is gone so now he has to basically kill you at level 6 to not even break even with Current Zed.

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