How to balance Zed and make him more of a melee assassin instead of spell caster

First of all, I mained zed since he was published and he had some major changes that pushed him more and more to a spell caster. What are the current probems? Unplayable in high elo, not fun to play against in low elo, Early game is weak, late game busted just like winrates show. Basically you are struggling to farm up and get skirmish kills until you can oneshot everyone with just R into E AA (nvm hourglass). Aiming to make him more fun to play and play against too with more consistency with the W changes and less statchecks late game, while making him more of a duelist, kite assassin and less ad caster who you cant fight against if he is ahead as you will only see his shadows. Let me hear your thoughts, I want Rito to change this champion as he used to make league fun for me and many others.

Nerfs: R Damage, especially later levels : nerf primarily directing low elo R Remove the AD stealing : it was better before on his W but is not necessary and only promotes feast or famine gameplay W Passiv: Shadows mimic abilities that deal 60% of their damage, scaling up to 100% by rank 5 : nerfing early waveclear and save harass, enables choice to skill W 2nd/3rd

Buffs: R Snapback, reduced to 0.2sec (same as LB) : you already have time and the place where he will definetly land to time and react your skillshots : Buff to higher elo R Introduce new stacking: unique kills grant AD and attackspeed : not only ad so he is more of a duelist and less adcaster, this promotes roaming and lessens the power spike of ~600 gold worth after killing someone lvl 6, as it will give way less ad from one kill Q Damager, especially lvl 1 W Decrease CD to 20 sec and by 2ish seconds when reactivating W (collects his shadow) : more consistent harass, waveclear, promotes agressive play E Decrease Energy cost with lvl : less useful with W damage nerf and has energy problems since the E changes to less damage and less CD

Thoughts: passiv: seems ok, farming is not hard for full ad melee champions, and he has E and q too, but is really satisfying for the player and helps him execute enemies as he is an assassin. Q will deal more damage, especially with W maxed 2nd, but you will have less damage from E if you do so.