How to lane as Lux against Zed and win

Chainman3·9/9/2019, 1:43:06 AM·9 votes·8,260 views

https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/3145406050/218544956?tab=overview

Theres a link to the match Took revitalize, bone plating, double armor with adaptive force runes, max E>W>Q in that order, while rushing seekers into lost chapter then finishing hourglass. This was a 100k mastery point mastery 7 zed with a 70% winrate on zed and a 3.0 KDA. Never died a single time to him and won mid lane.

Side note: the rune build couldve been even better if i took aery instead of comet for another shield. Shielded 12k dmg in the game while putting out 23k dmg.

EDIT: Gonna include more matches when playing against ad assasins. https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/3146083933/218544956?tab=overview

70 Comments

preternatural9/9/2019, 2:04:48 AM8 votes

well done you now know how to play against assassins as a mage. the secrets of league are now yours.

DUDE BRO9/9/2019, 4:36:51 PM6 votes

While you did well, you were a full rank ahead of him.

Gold 4 vs Silver 4, he's basically bronze.

At that level counters aren't as strong as people generally just do their own thing. At higher elo's a mage into zed is basically suicide.

Posui Gart9/9/2019, 8:03:30 AM4 votes

If you can afford to pick your items/runes like this, your team would have won 4x5 anyway

Daddy Ants9/9/2019, 9:32:02 AM4 votes

Here's how you win lane as any mage vs an AD assassin.

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Sire Hippington9/9/2019, 12:42:23 PM4 votes

if more poeople would adapt, i think zeds winrate would be 45% or less... Most (traditional)assasins aren't that strong right now, they just prey on the stupid and weak, punishing mistakes and snowballing hard from there. I'd argue that atleast 50% of the mages that face assasin won't alter their runes and early builts or skillorder, then they die to an all in and the snowball starts.

Just recently played orianna vs fizz, used boneplate and shieldbash(people forget that it also gives bonus resis on your shields ontop of better trades), putting 3 points into E befor maxing W and he was not once even close to killing me in all-ins, while i would heavily outtrade and zone him for the entier lane.

Shielding mages if used right should never have issues with assasin, unless it's that new overloaded breed like qiyana, irelia or akali that just don't stop bursting.

CudyDarkyz9/9/2019, 4:42:53 PM4 votes

tbh it looks more like how to go even with zed and have your team win then beating him yourself. it looks like VI did a lot of the heavy lifting with Darius scaling in the background. About half your kills are gotten, after your team was 10k ahead. The only adc the enemy team had was a twitch who gave a double kill in a early gank from what i can tell.

as for the zed being a good zed mastery does not matter i have something like 90,000 on tank top Ashe where i first buy Black clever and go tank/cdr items. The highest score Taliyah player has over 5 mil and last i saw was bronze with a horrid winrate. His winrate is high due to him barely having any games and if you look at the few games you can see he almost always has someone mega fed with him. "also if you look to last season he has a winrate of 42%"

For his KDA being pretty good its more then likely due to him playing a assassin and doing the "Rengar method" where you pick 1 target who you kill the fastest like a adc support mid without hourglass and jump in 1v5 dump your kit on them and they die then maybe escape or die "mostly die" it's also why his deaths are so high 14.0 / 8.1 / 10.4 is his average that's a lot of deaths.

Final for what you picked in runes and itemization.

What champion changes zeds?

What does Zed change when you pick lux or annie or talon or kayle or hell even something dumb like zac mid? at best you get him to MAYBE buy a QSS if you go Malz or lissandra. and he will swap his one MR rune to a Armor rune. he CAN buy a hexdrinker but from the stat site i use op.gg its one of his least winrate items along with other component items.

All of that is optional to him.

But for the inverse what is consider mandatory for mage's "for the most part" if you don't change your runes too revitalize bone plating and buy hourglass first and maybe throw in armor boots and maybe even play a champ that is a counter to him you lose all right to complain about him.

Don't you think that's kinda dumb where just seeing zed picked not even it being a good zed just the fact that Zed is in the game means your first item secondary rune tree and stat runes are locked in for you due to Zed just being IN the game.

The only other champion's i can think of that does something CLOSE to that is malzahar and mordekaiser where they make you get a QSS sometime in the game if they target you a lot.

But hey what do i know i'm not a pro i'm just someone who like playing clown meta and i don't even thin zed is strong his teamfighting is trash and the only poke he has in lane burns his mobility. He almost like tahm kench top. how he warps the whole lane around him just by being him. not very good can't do to much but you dare try to touch him before the 15 min mark.

He just feels unfair.

Also you were a full division ahead of him and he barely plays at all now.