Zed's W and R indicators

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Most likely you guys won't be changing this because of a lowly player who likes to play Zed, but adding indicators for enemies to predict his planned out plays that he NEEDS in order to outplay a smarter opponent. Its never reliable to rely on waiting for the enemy to make mistakes than outsmarting his opponents, but in Zed's case as an ASSASSIN he punishes people who makes the mistake on not playing safer. -pre nerf- For instance a smart lux would know that Zed would want to harass her, so she farms from safety until Zed tries to do something stupid to get a kill, like tower dive. She knows that after Zed missing his combo, he has spent a lot of energy and most of his skills are on cooldown. She puts down some harass and backs off as Zed's abilities go off cooldown. On top of buying a direct counter item, Zhonyas Hourglass, Lux has her jungle and bot roaming mid to apply huge pressure for Zed, and maybe sometimes getting a few kills. So what I'm trying to say is, that Zed does NOT need this nerf, because hes balanced in a way that if you are smart enough when fighting Zed he's basicly useless against a team of smart and coordinated players. And this also gives an inexpierenced player the opportunity to learn off of their mistakes that Zed has deserved to punish so the next time they fight Zed they should have a mindset of what to do when he does something.

And heres what you used to justify this. "We like Zed’s skill-intensive plays, but getting the upper hand simply because your opponents can’t see what you’re doing isn’t fair." Ahem... do you know how frustrating it is to be ulted by Rengar, or being ganked and outplayed by shaco who can BLINK and STEALTH and crit because you had your back turned, not knowing he would be there, or managing to get akali to just low enough to finish her off with an ability just for her to go stealth and either escape or outburst you because you aren't able for a split second to mouse over her hitbox. Same thing can be applied to Teemo when he's stealthed in bushes just waiting for you to fall into his traps because you didn't put down a pink ward for any of the people I put above? THIS is allowed, stealth champion assassins punishing their enemies' mistakes because they didn't buy a pink ward? According to your justification, they all got the upper hand because the opponents couldn't see them, and that is not fair.

ps. this is my first board post ahaha so .-. idk what to say but I spoke out my opinion and uh yeah..

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Gunslinger7441 votes

Your argument of Stealth is kind of null, as a pink ward literally costs 75 gold and cancels out the "not being able to see what you're doing" part in its entirity.

Buying a 3000 gold item being the only "hard counter" to him, while all it really does it cancel out his ult isn't much of an argument either. Neither is roaming teammates because he has an omnidirectional untargeted blink on a 15(?) second cooldown, which leaves behind a slowing field with E. He's more slippery than Fizz in some situations. I could go on, really. But I learned from experience that people will defend their main to the bitter end, so I won't be doing that.

The simple fact is that Zed is too strong right now. I think there's an easy fix in removing the bonus AD he gets from W, but Rito likes to overthink things.

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