How to Fix Zed (Zed player here)

Spinning Axes··1 votes·428 views

Before you downvote me to oblivion because I like to play Zed, this is purely a thread I'm creating to try and fix him being OP while still being very satisfying to play.

I think people are overestimating Zed's power at the moment, sure, he's strong, but he isn't broken. I just wanted to get that out of the way before we begin.

Increase the energy cost on his Shuriken, but make it refund a lot more if he hits both. This makes it so that it's harder to farm with it, and it rewards the Zed player for going in and hitting his skillshots.

His W is fine the way he is, perhaps even lowering the early CD would be a nice counterbuff.

Increase his E cooldown by 1 second early on, so he can't use it twice in one length of a shadow duration. THIS IS THE BIGGEST NERF! From what I know from playing Zed, hitting two E's is pretty valuable to his laning, and this will ruin his poke. He is forced to go in for damage with this.

I like the way his ult is now, but if you guys don't like any of the changes I suggested above, then I think I have a big fix for his ult.

When he ults, instead of putting Zed behind the enemy, put a shadow there. This makes it so that instead of using his ult as an escape, he has to use it to get in range of auto attacks and his BORK. It will be much harder to use the shadow to escape, he must either use his W offensively to get more damage or use it to get out, forcing a decision on the Zed. If any change had to be made, I think it would be this one, because it nerfs everything about his all-in that nobody likes to play against.

4 Comments

SmokinSickStyle2 votes

How come all these Zed "mains" are proposing all these "unproposable" nerfs, do you have an idea how bad his ult will turn out to be with your changes.

This time i even checked, Zed main with one Zed game.

GJ.

Kowe The Ewok1 votes

Increasing CD on Q? Yes. Lowering CD on W? No. Nerf the cooldown his E? Ok, less slow spamming.

For the suggested ult change. Sounds fair to be. However, I would still say that the main issue with his current ultimate is

  • he spawns behind instead of in front of the enemy
  • his ultimate effects active items, which is broken ever since BotrK was released.
SouL1ess1 votes

That's some pretty harsh nerfs, especially the ult one...

I mostly have grief with how Zed cannot ever lose a lane, not how he deals damage. His passive proc on minions means pushing the wave into his tower is giving him free gold, which is a pretty big advantage in Zed's favour because 90% of other midlaners cannot CS perfectly with just autoattacks when the enemy wave is in tower range (or at least cannot reliably do so).

Spinning Axes1 votes

I said I play Zed, I don't main him. Ask anyone who knows me, and they'll know that I play Zed a fair bit.

I wasn't trying to hit his laning phase too hard, as these nerfs would promote offensive Zed gameplay. The only thing that might suck offensively is the E CD nerf, but Zed's will learn to deal with that.

I liked the ult change because it forces Zed to choose whether to use his ultimate shadow as a means of getting to the person, or to keep it there to try and get out with it, rather than it being he ults > does damage > gets a free get out of jail free card.

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