How do you win late game as Zed?

TheBlackKnight21·2/24/2018, 5:33:49 AM·2 votes·1,643 views

If you look at my recent matches, I was playing as Zed against an enemy Swain with Vayne on his team. The game started out well, with all of my teammates getting ahead of their matchups, but then all went crumbling down and we threw the game. I noticed that I was pretty useless towards the end of the game, getting killed more than me getting kills. As an assassin, I know that they have weak late games, but what can I do to be at least a bit helpful? Note: I won't take "You Can't " for an answer.

9 Comments

Bottles The Pimp2/24/2018, 6:12:42 AM3 votes

Win before late game.

AlienPrimate2/24/2018, 6:16:44 AM1 votes

Lethality is a useless stat late game. If the game looks like it is going to go late you are going to need black cleaver, mortal reminder, and maybe some fighter type items like sterak's. Lethality loses most of its value once everyone starts getting their base armor and building things like GA and ninja tabi.

WitchQueen Annie2/24/2018, 6:45:40 AM1 votes

First of all... Zed is just not recommended for this very reason. Despite what the boards say ("game's over in the first 10 mins"), It DOES get to Late Game quite often. When you get there, you want someone like Lux, Viktor, or Vladimir effortlessly nuking entire teams from safety... not a high risk 1 vs 1 assassin like Zed who has to take high risks/make tons of calculations every time he wants to go for a multi kill.

Having said that...

Assuming it gets to the point where everyone is near full build.

You Split Push and you Split Push hard but DON'T DIE (you watch the mini map, and save the shadows to run, you can already clear waves without your shadows, just Qs and Es will do for hard pushing). Get all the Towers you can get and keep making them come to you (you then run away or pick off whoever you can). DON'T DIE when doing this. Eventually, you'll get 1-2 EXP lead over their team (from all the solo minion EXP) if all goes according to plan and tons of enemy towers will be gone.

In fact, in pretty much all games... Zed should have started Hard Splitting long before late game (at some point in Late Mid game... even in the most favourable comps, splitting is just better). The thing with splitting is... NEVER die. Its just constant hide and seek for you.

If all/most of the Tier 1 and 2 enemy towers are gone and you have 1-2 EXP lead... group up with your team and try to get those Multi Kills using your EXP/gold lead; buy Mercurial if necessary to counter some CC. After 2 team fights... you'll probably have either have won or lost that game but its probably your only shot.

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However, at some higher elo they will send a TP duelist top (who will save TP to force 5 v 4 when you split) to "match" your Split movements while drafting a CC heavy comp to stop you (and arm multiple Zhonyas/Stopwatches). This is your absolute worst nightmare scenario.

What you then do is you Hard Split, but you make sure there are periods of time where you are Off the enemy radar completely. If the TP Top is away at the wrong place... you quickly join your team to kill their key targets before his TP sets off. You then have to keep timing your Splits with your estimation of his TP cool downs.

Yeah... just don't play this champion... its 300% easier to team fight with someone like Viktor at all eloes.

dunder kill2/24/2018, 7:14:27 AM1 votes

Patience

You have to be very patient on Zed in team fights. You have to wait for them to blow some critical cooldowns before going in like tank and support CC. Making picks is another option. Other than that you can try splitting but you always want to be splitting top if Baron is up because you don't have TP

Zed genius2/24/2018, 1:25:34 PM1 votes

Late game zed is a distraction. You jump in the fight getting as much focus as u can for your adc to kill everything. With how many tools there are to completely negate zed's burst it's basically impossible to do much in lategame teamfights. I would recommend going for flanks most of the time and look for picks (maybe camp red buff bush and wait for the adc or sth)