About Zed.

Can we honestly stop talking about how Zed needs a rework or nerf because I'm honestly starting to get the feeling that over 70% of people who post on the boards don't know what he does. His kit gives him one of the largest "high risk high reward" margins of any assassin.

The average person will not come close to using him to his full potential. Only by mastering the art of your shadows and skill usage will you be able to pull off amazing jaw dropping outplays like you can see Fakker and other D1 Zed mains do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbCqWMIT-Pk

In my opinion Zed has the One of The best kits for a healthy assassin. Some of you will disagree, let me point out why I think this.

Q: Extremely Narrow skill shot that can be easily missed and one of his main sources of damage/burst. W: His main outplay ability that can be easily be mis-used. If you don't spend a large amount of time mastering zed and his shadow use you will not succeed. Mastering shadow positioning, remembering where they are located in fights; especially team fights, all while hitting all of your skills on your target with your shadows. E: small AOE and slow, does mediocre damage, and mostly used for utility. R: A targeted jump to an enemy champion that deals bonus damage based on how much damage YOU do to them in that short time span.

So there is his kit in a nut shell and he's honestly the highest skill cap champions that give you a reward for his kit if you have the intellect and mechanical skill to pull it off. He has low kill potential early game on most match ups and when snowballed he can carry. For Zed to make a high reward play (Like picking someone off or killing the adc in a teamfight) he needs to get onto his enemy and do as much damage as possible which makes his play extremely risky and leaves him open to a ton of CC and damage from the opposing team. he has a very small gap closer which can be abused when making a wrong move.

Other assassins that offer less skill to use them properly include but are not limited to: Akali, Katarina, Talon. All of those champ can do very well without a lot of mechanical skill or knowledge of the champ. Zed however can not.

I felt the need to make this post discussing why Zed Shouldn't be nerfed or reworked because I've seen a good amount of threads pop up claiming he's "OP" or "no risk involved". I also need to point out to all the comment that will appear "Zed fanboy" that I am not a fanboy of zed, nor do i main him. I hope I have listed enough points and reasoning to put this "Zed is OP" discussion to rest.

Thanks to you all for reading! If you'd like to make any constructive arguments/Questions ask them in the comments. See you on the rift! :3