Is Zed OverPlayed Because He's OP?

It's very hard to take what you say seriously when you are trying to argue that Zed is OP. Zed is the most counterable champion in the game right now, to the extent that I feel bad for every Zed main out there. Zed ulting you? No problem, zhonya's. Zed ulted you and you are an ad champion? No problem, Mercurial scimitar. Zed ulted you and you are a tank? If you have randuin's omen and sunfire cape, you won't die (and he probably will, because you probably have CC if you are a tank).

Zed isn't op if you actually make an attempt to try to counter him. A bunch of champions actually counter zed like kayle and lissandra and talon. Its your fault if you pick an extremely squishy champ it your fault if you don't build against him. Zed has high cooldowns and he can only kill 1 target, so yeah he's op, he's killing the adc every 80 seconds with his ult and escaping with his shadows. Talon actually has a better pentakill chance than zed due to his massive aoe w and ult.

-47/48% win-rate is OP now? -2 viable items completely countering him, one of which is literally built by every single AP champion in the game, makes him OP? -80% of his burst being on a single target long-cooldown R makes him OP?

I seriously question the logic of people like you

he isnt op he's overplayed cause lcs players used him what about him makes him safe? he has practically the smallest dash in game oh and let me guess what your saying he's op a good zed was able to deal tons of damage to 1 single target like any other assassin and make his escape wow an assassin can assassinate a squishy that does seem op thats pretty much what fizz ahri talon and many other champions can do and every single champion in teh assassin class can do it too

Because he's flashy and makes cool plays.

"Because He's OP?"

I stopped reading here.

He's overplayed because people still haven't gotten over that Faker vs. Ryu highlight video.

Nah I think he is overplayed because people like to make #LCSBigPlays just like Lee Sin was

I don't know. You want to call him OP? I guess it wouldn't be really far from truth. There are some aspect of Zed that make him so popular in competitive and soloQ .

He's an excellent farmer thanks to AoE spells that have small energy costs, and make him able to cs efficiently even when the enemy laner puts on a decent aggression. His mobility and safe escape options make him an excellent roamer, as he has excellent ways to get out after getting a kill, where champions like Akali, Talon or Rengar would have to rely on their team to prolonge the fight until they are safe. His ultimate combo is almost a sure kill in terms of damage (even against full health) thanks to a synergy with Botrk (as Death Mark reapplies a % of the damage you dealt with each basic attack. Of course, it also reapplies the damage such as Spellblade, but the great aspect of Death Mark +Botrk is that it also reapplies the Active damage. ) This forces players to build Zhonya's , QSS, or being above 200 Armor to absorb his burst, which, alone, puts a lot of pressure into cornering opponents into specific builds.

EDIT: Actually , the only thing that prevents Zed from being hit by a wild swing of the nerfbat is that QSS and Zhonya's aren't totally worthless items.

Idk... I play him because he is fun, not because I perceive him as OP.

At least with Zed if you mess up, you don't really do much. He's a pretty risky champ outside of lane phase.

Zed is not op at all he's got a very counter-able burst combo that will 1 shot you if you don't build against it...but his burst is delayed by like 3 seconds i forgot how long the death mark is, but it is very predictable. The reason he is played a lot right now is because he's a very safe pick in the mid lane with all of the poke heavy mid-laners right now. Zed is the most balanced assassin in the game right now... the only reason being is that he can be countered by everyone on the enemy team if needed.

I'm pretty sure Zed is currently over played because of recent Zed hype in WCS. Zed is a fun champion so I can see why he gets a lot of play time

It depends on what perspective you are looking from. He is played because he is one of the assassins with an escape mechanic. Also popular pro players use him, so that helps with making people play him. I personally feel he is played a lot because not only is he strong, but he is fun to play for the person playing him. Making play or outplays on champions feels even more rewarding for a lot of people (me included) and he is one of the champions who is able to do it. Its like playing Lee Sin or Thresh, where you have a lot of ways to do something so you feel that much more impactful when you do them.

In terms of his role (burst assassin) I actually think he's one of the best designs, there's a ton of counterplay to his rotations and cool stuff there, the part where he's a little too strong (IMO) is his laning because when you give an assassin a very safe lane with strong wave clear it means you can never really shut them down, they'll just reach their item spikes a little later or sooner depending.

Manaless harass in lane is pretty annoying, on Akali (who has her issues don't get me wrong) it's balanced because her Q doesn't do a whole lot unless you melee her pre-6 like an idiot, on Talon it's balanced because he has mana, Zed is a pain because his harass has no cost and crazy high range. That and his excellent wave clear means he's gonna be S-tier for a long time because it's very difficult to shut him down and he can just push and go roam whenever he wants.

In general assassins should have a weak laning phase, or at least some kind of weakness during laning, because they are usually strong on every other front. Zed doesn't have this which is where the complaints come from I think.

Zed is the pen-ultimate Duelist assassin.

The game shifted out of split pushing, dueling, and assassin's for a while.

It shifted back into them, and Zed returns.

Zed isn't OP, he has clear definitive weaknesses -- NOW (S3 Worlds he did NOT)

Riot seems to have an idea of the problem with League currently based on their recent statement regarding alternative strategies. Right now, teams do their best to bypass the laning phase and make it to the mid-game where they execute either "Deathball" or "Split Push" Currently "Deathball" is the most effective, with Zed being one of the best for "Split Push" and being passable in a "Deathball". Since there aren't really any other effective strategies worth playing, they champions best at the two dominant strategies seem exceedingly OP.

Alistar, Maokai, Ryze, Khazix.... all the most picked champions are crazy good in deathball compositions.

Teams have gotten better at dealing with Pick compositions, so we see less and less of those compositions. (Thresh remains as he works with EVERY composition in existence)

Any luck we'll see items to support other strategies other than "smash your face into their face HARDER"

Of course.

Go ahead and check every single history of Overpowered champions for the last 4 years. You will see 99.999999999% of them were Fotm/very high pick rates.

Zed is OP and people are just abusing it atm.

all theses champs, summoner spells and items counter zed if u arent even trying to dodge his dmg or counter him then ya hes op but thats your fault ive been a zed main for very long ik the stuggles and the perks but i tell you that he is balenced not op

( btw im sure theres more that counter him i just cant think of it right now)

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