Zed Patch Notes
9.4 Zed Patch Changes Base Stats ATTACK SPEED GROWTH 2.1% ⇒ 3.3% Zed's atk speed was garbage to the point where good zed players would take atk speed from runes to make up for it, but sure we can count this as a small buff when in reality its a slice of life change to help him cs better in lane and get more autos off in the late game. And before anyone says something about cs'ing with his passive. Zed's atk speed was at the point where if he autto'd a creep right as the tower shot was going to hit it and the tower then targetted a different creep and would kill it with that shot the zed's atk speed was too slow to get that minion. But like i said we'll call this a buff.
Q - Razor Shuriken DAMAGE 80/115/150/185/220 (+0.9 bonus attack damage) ⇒ 90/125/160/195/230 (+1.0 bonus attack damage) 10% atk dmg of zed's ad in the late game zed's ad will be at most 449 ad without infernal drakes. which comes out to 45 ad+10 ad =55ad
W - Living Shadow RECAST RANGE 1300 range ⇒ 1950 range COOLDOWN 22/20/18/16/14 seconds ⇒ 20/18.5/17/15.5/14 seconds Slice of life change for zed in teamfights and to juke better but people will argue this is a buff and undoubtedly is a buff to his numbers but not his dmg. Nonetheless still a buff.
R - Death Mark REMOVEDREAPER OF SHADOWS Zed no longer gains 5 (+5/10/15% target's attack damage) attack damage when Death Mark earns him a takedown on a target that would grant him a higher bonus than his current one
An adc will usually have around 350 ad which once zed gets 15% of that we're looking 52.5 ad.
Conclusion to these changes on Zed feel free to express your own conclusions on these numbers with reasoning: Zed lost: 53 ad ( at level 6 this would be around 20 ad) 5% of 100 ad (a bf sword adc) 700g worth of ad Overall: 700g worth of stats at level 6 Zed gained: 1.2% atk speed per level scaling up to 21.6% atk speed at level 18 (at level 6 7.2% atk speed 180g worth of atk speed) 55 ad on his late game Q (around level 6 this increase would be around 13 dmg) 455g worth of ad Overall: 635g worth of stats at level 6
His level 18 trade offs roughly 53 ad to all his abilities and autos for 55 ad on his Q. Of course in this case the 53 ad is better but they also added the atk speed. 21% atk speed literally does nothing for zed's teamfight since he cant stand still when diving his target. So again the 53 ad on all his dmg would be more useful than the 55 on his Q, what it does help zed do tho in the late game is to split push and take towers faster. overall losing some of his burst dmg for split push potential.
For those that thing this is a buff im curious to see why?