Zed is way too safe for the amount of damage he does.

Looking at the most obvious "overtuned" outliers like even Talon, Zed's bonus AD scalings are ridiculous for how much safer his damage is.

Talon has to land 3 different parts of his skills or blow his ult and then reveal himself with a Q>auto and be in melee range (in the process sacrificing his single escape in a teamfight as he can't stealth out of focus fire) to do his burst.

Zed's got even better scaling, his projectiles are not reliant on the return damage and have nearly double the bonus AD in one hit compared to the first W strike, can be copied by the shadows, and its cd is 3 seconds shorter and not restrained by mana costs (in fact, if his shadow hits a copied spell he even gets refunds).

You have a champ whose shadows give him a whopping 650 range, the same or greater than many mages, and his Death Mark is so overloaded that not only does it copy damage done in the period, it gives him a freaking speed boost to which to stick to his target to trigger all that damage, and gives him a second shadow for completely evading retaliation after landing 3 skills. Each kill feeds him further AD, and the cd on the Death Mark itself, which can work as an active immunity to dodge skills is low as hell to begin with for how much power it has.

This is the safest assassin by far.

I'm getting sick of having to play Garen, Sion, or Malphite mid to reliably deal with this oppressive crap because if you play any mage or assassin in this lane that's not a Yasuo, he either pushes you out of lane with the WEQ poke that costs him nothing for failing while mages and AP assassins other than Katarina (who's weak anyways) run out of mana trying to match both his poke and wavepush (since the only way to reduce the damage is to be in minions, so even if you reduce the damage he gets to both poke you and push wave at the same time), or he just kills you.

It's getting pretty ridiculous that by this point he can land a single shuriken and E+auto with his ult and it nets him a kill against anything that's not a tank.

And even then once he gets youmu+duskblade+black cleaver+Lord Dominik's Regards, he treats pretty much all tanks except maybe Garen (with W saved for his ult) and a meaty Sion as just any other mage.

Do something about it, either lower the range of the shadows, removed the shadow generated by his R, or make the shadow not copy the E's or remove the copied damage from R and just make it a flat amount that can be balanced without factoring electrocute+duskblade proc into it.

This assassins is so far ahead of the others in damage on top of his far superior escapes and ability to range poke, it's out of line.

He's got so many ways to avoid being pinned down and damaged compared to the other assassins on top of having better burst than all of them and range as well.