Yet MOAR Zed buffs on the PBE

No, all the champs with 53-55% win rates are totally fine and not overtuned at all.

I could have bet that you are a Zed main with your 210k+ points on him. By the way, I had a very intense and not-so-peaceful agrument with a Zed main a few weeks ago so I don't want to make the same mistakes this time, therefore I want to let you know that I don't want to insult either you or your main champion. I just want you to see with my (and many other players') eyes. If it's ok for you, then keep reading, but if you feel like you can't take some agruments against Zed, then please forget about this comment.

First of all, Riot gives skins to popular champions and not to champions they prefer. You have listed a few of those popular champions, including Ezreal, Ahri and Lux. Riot gets their money from skins and in order to get more money, you have to make skins many players will buy. What skins will many players buy? Skins for the most popular champions. Skins have got **nothing ** at all to do with gameplay. Does this mean that , , and are all preferred over other champions just because they have got many skins? Not at all.

Secondly, I am talking about gameplay preference and not playerbase popularity. At the very moment Zed's winrate sinks under 50%, he gets a buff and Riot says that "he is struggling at the moment, he needs a little bit of love and adjustment". Where are the buffs and gameplay adjustments for ? I could have also listed champions but a few days ago Riot talked about their balance policy in which they let us know that their balance is based around high-ELO plays and not regular plays. I can accept this, therefore I don't want to mention them. But all the other champions I listed before have got less than 48% winrate and most of them have been in the bottom of champion.gg's "overall performance" list for at least half a year now. This being said, has been sitting on the top of this list for months. I want you to see that I'm not saying he is overpowered, I just want to say that there are champions in desperate need of balance changes who need Riot's love more than Zed has ever needed it in the past months. This points out the fact that for Riot, Zed's slightest weakness is more important to balance out than (almost) any other champion's balance. This doesn't mean that Zed is their favorite but you can accept the fact that Riot prefers him over a relatively large pool of champions.

Thirdly, Zed is a little bit similar to Yasuo and Katarina. They are all considered overpowered in lower divisions because of their ability to all-in anytime they want. They are sort of "playmakers" in which their zoning comes from their overall presence and not from a particuluar ability (for example 's Q or 's E). This is why all three of them can be played awfully because many players who don't know them well enough use their all-ins badly and at bad times. This doesn't mean they need lots of skill to know HOW to use the champion but lots of knowledge to know WHEN to use them. If you are playing Zed and you ult a Fiora with her W ready and Lulu standing next to her, then you don't have the necessary knowledge to play Zed efficiently. On the other hand, if you know when and how to use him, you stand out from the list of other champions. The same is true to Yasuo and Katarina and some other champions I haven't mentioned (and don't want to mention either). The other end of this scale is who has been performing very well lately thanks to his easy-to-learn kit which is not complicated at all.

Lastly, I want to talk a little bit about Zed's kit and mechanism. The most ridiculous numbers on him are his CDs, his passive's extra damage and his ultimate's %-dmg. His passive is literally a fifth ability whereas Lissandra's passive is literally nothing at all compared to Zed who doesn't even have mana. It is not healthy at all to give Zed such low cooldowns on almost every single ability. It doesn't punish his misplays and doesn't reward his opponent playing out him. If, for example, you play with Kennen and Zed ults you, you can ult him and E away. He misses his Q but hits his W-E on you so with the last tick, he deals 50% of your health and he lost 20% of his health so you can stay on your lane a little bit longer. You did great, he did bad. However, it doesn't punish Zed at all. All he needs to do is to wait 15 seconds at most until he can all-in on you again (without his R, of course), which means you either die or leave your lane. I know that Zed has counterpicks but who doesn't? This doesn't mean he is "average". And many players claim that all you have to do against Zed is to pick Zhonya. This is not a good argument because no champion should be countered only by an item and Zhonya doesn't mitigate his other abilities' damage. You can't just Zhonya every 3 seconds when he throws his shrukines at you.

Once more, I don't want to insult either Zed or his players and I don't want to claim either that he is overpowered. I just want others to see that he gets slightly more love than anyone else in this game. Period.