How's Zed's ban rate right now?

Zed is too intimidating. Just look at him. They fear him.

Not hard to be scared of Zed when he can pretty much erase entire teams atm once he gets duskblade, irregardless of whether they Zhonya or outkit an ult or not.

(If they Zhonya, he just sets up 2 living shadows, waits for them to get out, and kills them with Razor Shuriken).

His damage is so overtuned right now that he can pretty much dominated even if the player is a poor player. He just dominates MORE when it's a good player.

He's lost his 1v1 counterplay, and in team fights, he still manages to pull off miracles and triples and very rarely dies doing so, unless it's an unskilled Zed.

But what's worse is, all it takes is getting that Duskblade (not a bad mid feeding 6/0) to get that momentum now. If he has both a Duskblade AND a Bad feeding mid, there is no recovery. He just goes 20/1 and the game becomes so lopsided that no amount of team "mistakes" brings the game back.

It particularly sucks when the other lanes have a Magic damage component, so that your team started building Magic resist, but then have to run into a fed Zed and there's nothing you can do about it (Just Ornned vs a Rumble; had to build resist vs Rumble, but viola; our Mid Kayle fed Zed 2/0, got him an early Duskblade, and before you know it, Zed is 1v5ing the entire team. Then I'm stuck trying to get Armor enough to survive the lethality, while my team pretty much keeps the snowball going).

Duskblade's status just doesn't mesh well with 2 parts of Zed's kit: 5-15% bonus AD from the highest AD target he's killed. That creates + 400 AD Bonus Zeds who can hit Q's for Ult + damage.

And, Zed's ult calculates pre-mitigation. That means, shields don't help except to absorb some of the damage from the total, and it ignores armor in its calculations for the % damage hits. That means, he is both kitted to kill tanks AND high HP's, so there's no real true survival option outside of Zhonya's or spell shields, which now he can just counter by supplementing Duskblade after Zhonya's.

The only way to basically win vs Zed: Long range nukes, and don't get near him. ever. Don't ever have an unwarded bush for him to snipe you in. Make the game a 5v4 as he chases targets he'll never get to, because they have perfect information that he's coming.

Or, hope and pray late game you can ace him with a 50-60 second ressurrection and then push to end.

It's very rare to win with a fed Zed, and that's what happens too often.

Except, stat pages say he's only 51%. That's because his kit is hard to understand for new players, and because Zed players are prone to tunnel visioning killing while leaving windows for their base to get pushed. Just because teams find ways to play around him, doesn't mean he isn't broken as heck.