Zed is broken af

M Schumacher·1/18/2016, 3:51:08 AM·45 votes·15,028 views

Zed is the most broken champion in the game right now, and dominates immobile and mobile mages alike. Immobile mages literally have 0 chance of winning lane vs him.

Zed facts:

Pros: -Manaless infinite wave clear starting at level 4 -Highest mobility mid laner in the game -Nearly impossible to gank at any point in the game -Impossible to split push against -Can 100-0 any champion in the game starting at level 6 with no counterplay. -Forces his lane opponent to rush the extremely nerfed Zhonyas! -Autowins lane by facerolling

Cons: -Can be banned

How long are you going to wait to buff immobile mages and nerf zed riot??

80 Comments

Science Fiction1/18/2016, 4:27:37 AM11 votes

As someone who loves zed. Yes, he is a bit much currently. The early damage and nonmana issues are the main issue. item 3140 item 3157 are classic responses...but a half decent zed would of zoned you out of cs and picked up a kill(s) therefore rendering you useless. If it takes you forever to get that zhonyas chances are you've lost.

Calabok1/18/2016, 4:19:47 AM8 votes

nerf him or give us counterplay against his ult ...

revert the last buff.

Troiann1/18/2016, 3:55:03 AM7 votes

Today a Zed ulted me at my tower when i had 20 HP and he killed me AND got away. Like WTF?

Absolute monstrosity. Must be nerfed.

iHerring1/18/2016, 4:05:50 AM4 votes

Well of course he sounds bad when you forget all his counterplay. Just pink ward him and rush QSS, noooooob.

RPK9KM4K4A1/18/2016, 3:58:28 AM3 votes

Yeah Zed is just going to farm you starting from very beginning until you buy qss/zhonya.

After that he continues you farm you because free compounding AD making Q E and autoes hitting like a truck.

Chrome Raven1/18/2016, 4:22:45 AM3 votes

item 3140 item 3157

360D3GR3SS1/18/2016, 11:05:08 AM2 votes

Play zed then. See how much success you get if it is soooo easy. He is strong sure, but there is a large array of counterplay (hard counterplay). Several people who can easily beat him are Fiora ,Jax, Chogath, Irelia ,Ahri (soraka can also silence him and heal the ally he is targeting). Or any support who is somewhat knowledgeable about zed's abilities and can land cc accordingly. My suggested change would be to lower the speed of his W again but keep the range.

Caytheles1/18/2016, 3:55:29 AM2 votes

I thought so too, then i started playing him, he is not an easy champ. High damage ofcourse, but one thing i noiced is that the enemy always forgets the Shadow, which means free harrass.

All in all a good and fun champion. but gets countered hard by friggin Annie and Fizz.

Also leblanc is the most mobile, and also if you faceroll you will end up going to your shadow and killing yourself... Try not to be so predictable.

Take a friend with you that has CC and shit on him.

PicoDelGallo5/2/2016, 3:32:04 PM2 votes

I agree that zed is broken. They haven't / I doubt they'll do anything about it though. There's a reason he is banned in literally every match in ranked, and the second he isn't someone auto picks him. He is a champ that takes little work to rise through the games. Why ? He is a melee champ. Melees are suppose to get up close and personal to do their crazy damage but they gotta put themselves in a little danger to do it. Zed doesn't have that problem. Not only do all of his attacks hit at a range, and do aoe dmg, he has a shadow that can increase his poke range and leave him completely out of danger. No way of reaching him. He pokes, he pokes and just comes in for last hits and can shadow out when he wants. His whole kit is ranged and the only time he goes into danger is to ult someone, which doesn't really put him in danger because you can't target him while in ult for a couple of seconds but he can hurt you, then he does a combo and shadows back out... so how on earth is he a balanced melee carry when none of his kit put him in melee range, and it allows him more mobility than most champs ? Of course you can stun him, you can stun anyone. One stun won't do it. You can cc lock him with a whole team! ... well that sucks because when everyone focuses him and he can escape so easily your whole team just wasted all their cc on one guy and is left open to the rest of their team.

He's kit can do too much is the issue. He's in no danger for being a melee champ. He's more like a freaking mage with more mobility and can still destroy with white hits.

UltimateGamer95712/10/2019, 2:33:26 AM1 votes

you say he has the highest mobility mid lane but your forgetting yassuo and also his counter play is: buy zonhyas

CyberbullyMarc 8/30/2017, 2:16:43 PM1 votes

its just give him one item and the game is over dont matter how good you are or what level 1 item and your game is over cause zed is to op a nerf to zed or lethality would be nice

Shad0wbird1/13/2018, 8:30:16 AM1 votes

yea zed is so strong rn, against immobile champs like Lux he a nightmare. i played a game as lux and he zoned me out of cs, coundnt buy item 3157 for a while, i had like no cs and he would constantly poke me to more than half my health with just one combo, no ult. he literallly killed me under tower and took no damage. i just cant....

Ghxztt1/18/2016, 5:11:03 AM1 votes

Despite his high damage, he is easily countered by Zhonyas and QSS.