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How to Lane Against Zed? /rant

1983XL200R·1/19/2018, 12:42:30 AM·2 votes·635 views

Maybe a half question half rant. I'm in the process of perma-banning but sometimes you get him in a normals game where i just want to have fun. You walk into lane and he starts q. I usually play Taliyah so i can bully him with q and aery. I can cs well here too. He has no mana, so he can spam his q whenever which is annoying but its not too hard to dodge. Then he gets level 2. He stays behind and at any point can w towards me and q. This along with a w reactivate and an auto or two can easily burst me down to less than half with electrocute. When he has his e at level three he can land one combo and ignite and pretty much get a guaranteed kill. From here on, I get too focused on dodging or baiting this combo and before I know it, he has two times the cs of me, no thanks to his execute passive which makes it pretty much impossible to miss cs. He gets six and i cant even stand under tower without getting clapped with one rotation of his keys.

So what am I supposed to do against a Zed? just dodge his q? dodge it again 15 seconds later? If he hits one q at any point in the game after 6 he can just press the rest of his keys and get a kill? I don't understand why a character can miss an ability a million times through a game and then hit one and it means my death. Do i just rush Zhonya's and then play like a bitch just because of the character I'm up against? How do I maintain cs while at a disadvantage in kills, cs, and already at a disadvantage because of his passive?

5 Comments

1983XL200R1/19/2018, 12:43:38 AM2 votes

People are complaining about high damage like Zoe or Vayne and just ignoring a champ like Zed who can 100-0 you at level 3.

SwiftCrane1/19/2018, 7:29:46 AM1 votes

Zed is an annoying midlane dominating champion that riot lets be because he's flashy and cool and people want to watch him. The problem with vayne is she can deliver that damage consistently with no energy problems and cooldown periods and in the lategame she does a lot more than zed. This means that of she's strong at every stage of the game like she is now, she gets to scale to a guaranteed 1v5 penta champion.

Zoe actually one shots people from super long range - has super long range cc which gives her time to set up her one shot as well - all down to a 3 second cooldown or so. She does this regardless of being ahead or behind. Another classic certainlyt champion. When your champion is a ranged mage with god tier utility, super low cooldowns - seeing "Zoe ONE shots compilation" videos hours after the champion is released with ZERO nerf to the damage just shows how much leeway they give certainlyt.

Zed is super strong - can 100-0 you with manaless low CDR harass and can get out from under your turret after one shotting you without taking a single hit, but plenty of assassins can do that.

TL;DR zed is BS antifun but can be countered at higher levels with organized teams so riot doesnt care vayne (and other OP adcs) can hardcarry teamfights and thus are impacting too much of the games Zoe is designed by certainlyt with absolutely 0 regard for player fun and the complaints will probably die down as riot does nothing cause they dont care