Machete or Talisman?

The Poetic Zed·12/12/2015, 11:46:40 PM·1 votes·1,411 views

Gonna be trying to make the ideal jg route for Zed, so which should I start with? I'm not sure of the strengths of talisman and machete. When do you use talisman, and when do you use machete first? I would assume the machete for on hit, but talisman might help his early sustain? Thoughts please :)

6 Comments

Death by Glamour12/12/2015, 11:52:14 PM1 votes

Talisman is usually used by people with aoe

Machette by AAers

Would use a smilar route as wu.

Krugs wraiths wolf frog b the go back to red and start a full clear

Fixed ty i brain farted

Abyssphere12/13/2015, 12:04:48 AM1 votes

Hmm, I'm not sure because Zed is kinda half-way between the kind of jungler that likes Machete (AD and therefore auto-based), however he's also a big caster which is good for Talisman. That said, he doesn't use the mana regen from Talisman so that probably makes the difference.

You could try both in a custom to test, but I'd go with Machete I think.

DorkunedAuras12/13/2015, 1:11:24 AM1 votes

I'd say machete because it gives the lifesteal against monsters. Given that zed gets 0 benefit from the talisman mana regen, and the talisman healing is less than what he'd get from the lifesteal, I think machete all the way.

Flyer Beast12/13/2015, 2:28:22 AM1 votes

Use item 1041. Zed gets no bonus mana regen from item 1039. Start Rocks Red. 6-18-6 masteries, (assassin, thunderlords decree, 45% cdr cap) Flat AD Marks Quints, Armor Seals, Scaling MR/FLAT CDR Glyphs.