Why does Zed's ultimate deal true damage?
He's kind of fallen out of the meta, but this is always a relevant question and is blatantly misleading.
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where do you see that?
what the fck?
it's physical Damage
It doesn't lol
DEATH MARK: Stores a percentage of all physical and magic damage that Zed deals to the target while marked. The mark detonates at the end of its duration, dealing physical damage equal to the stored value plus 100% of his attack damage.
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It isn't listed. That's why it's misleading. Allow me to explain.
Suppose a Zed with 200 AD hits a champion with 100 armor with five auto-attacks and no spells after casting R. This is a total of 1000 damage pre-mitigation. Post mitigation, this would deal a total of 500 damage to them. As written, you would expect Death Mark would deal a physical damage instance equal to 50% of that, plus 100% of his AD. In that case, it should hit for a total of 100% AD (200) + 50% of dealt damage (500 * 50% = 250). This would make its total damage 450 physical, which would be reduced to 225. However, because Zed's ultimate calculates its 50% of damage dealt pre-mitigation, it is, in effect, going to have base damage of 100% AD (200) + 1000, or 1200 damage. After factoring in armor, he deals 600 damage total with Death Mark. This means that he deals 500 damage in total with his basic attacks, and 600 damage with his ultimate. This is the same thing as if Zed did 100% of his damage dealt damage as True damage, plus 100% of his AD as physical damage.