Breaking News: Zed Pick/Ban Rate has reached 92.58% in Plat+

Nilok·5/31/2016, 1:17:13 PM·180 votes·8,062 views

Welcome ladies and gentlemen, Summoners of all ages, On tonight's transmission we are watching the slow, yet horrifying climb of Zed's pick/ban rate.

Since the announcement of Zed's changes one the PBE, Zed's pick/ban rate has increased by 1% in platinum+, putting him at startling 92.58%. Globally, Zed is placed at a pick/ban rate of 97.40%.

Will Riot's changes put a dent in this unending ascent? Will Zed reach Kassadin's mythical pick/ban rate of 99.52%? Stay tuned and find out! http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/korra_shinobi_3829.png

88 Comments

Zarvanis5/31/2016, 2:22:03 PM77 votes

All I want is for his abilities to do less damage to minions. Well, actually, I want to see him gutted into oblivion, but that's just my bias towards assassins.

In all seriousness, weakening his waveclear, even by a little bit, would be astronomically helpful for whoever has the displeasure of laning against him.

MarshallBananna5/31/2016, 4:03:50 PM51 votes

Biased opinion: I want to see Zed gutted. I want to see him share the same pick and win ratio that some of my favorite champions have to endure because they are not Riot's personal favorite posterboy and don't have his LC$BigPlay$ potential.

Realistic opinion: Zed needs to lose early safety and farming, that's it. I don't mind getting 100-0 under turret if he earned it. Right now, he doesn't.

Hit his early CS and poke, and hit it HARD.

I'm talking stuff like one or more of these:

Passive no longer working on minions and monsters.
Q pass through damage reduced even further (to 30% or 50%).
Q casts from shadow deals modified damage (60%/70%/80%/90%/100% based on W rank). This is on top of the original 50% reduction for multiple Q hits.
Lose the W passive damage.
Give W a bigger cooldown, but refunds some CD if a mimicked ability hits an enemy champion.
Increased Q cost but refunds some Energy if hits an enemy champion (+33% energy cost over current cost, refunds part of the cost on hit).
Remove his current passive entirely, and use his current W passive as his actual passive.
W no longer refunds energy.

Other less conservative approaches:

His shadows have HP in similar fashion to 's tentacles and can be destroyed.
Zed taking champion damage reduces the duration of all existing shadows by a fraction of a second.
Zed taking champion champion damage prevents him from dashing to his shadow, in similar fashion to Ambush.
Activating Death Mark a second time before the mark pops reduces the pop damage.

System of Sol5/31/2016, 2:11:32 PM23 votes

Better dead than Zed . If Riot could just remove him I'd really appreciate it. The game just hasn't been as fun since his release.

ObamasPetCow5/31/2016, 3:28:41 PM9 votes

Zed is dead baby

100 points to the people who get the reference

Over Innsmouth5/31/2016, 2:57:16 PM8 votes

Come on League! We can do it!

https://66.media.tumblr.com/43844ce2e3bf272342c4946b5517fbe7/tumblr_nphb9i6uMs1qksk74o1_500.gif

If it means anything, I'll probs still be banning him unless I'm mid Vlad. Nothing's funnier than hearing his patented "Ha ha ha" and just slipping into pool.

The Shuriken changes look like net buffs for Zed's who know what they're doing, and the fools who can't play him but pick him will continue to lose.

Nogrim5/31/2016, 9:13:33 PM7 votes

make him use mana and just call it a day. the only problem is he uses energy so is able to never leave lane or run out of gas like all of the mages he is destroying.

frankly all the characters who use energy are part of this problem Zed is just by far the worst offender.

morris15/31/2016, 4:20:24 PM5 votes

No going back now, Riot. I don't think anyone, main or hater, is ok with Zed's current state.

Xion Moonray6/1/2016, 1:59:14 AM5 votes

I remember when Riot actually called him a "healthy assassin."

Healthy for their fucking coffers, I bet.

Erdamon5/31/2016, 5:27:45 PM5 votes

Kassadin "My legacy..."

mikemcparty5/31/2016, 8:36:34 PM5 votes

Kassawin will not be passed. To some extent, I really hope he does so that Zed gets completely gutted.

BornAgainVirgin6/1/2016, 12:04:19 AM4 votes

I'll be hiding until QSS is useful vs Zed again, or hes given the Evelynn treatment. I think he will hit 99.8%, people have had enough. I had a mid laner on my team who just flat out gave up because they had to lane vs Zed.

Smitty Manjensen6/1/2016, 1:41:12 AM4 votes

When Kass had such a ban rate they nerfed him hard, Zed has one they barely touch him.

Buttigieg 20205/31/2016, 9:07:59 PM2 votes

Urgot to upvote a korra reference

Guy Fox Teemo5/31/2016, 9:14:55 PM2 votes

I really don't get his 85% ban rate, it makes almost no sense, yes Zed is annoying and a bit over tuned, (Hence the nerfs next patch/shift in power in his annoyances)

But 85% ban rate is for like shit like Malzahar rework release, or Skarner Rework release, the Zed hate is so astronomically strong it seems people are hating on him now JUST to hate on him. The guy has stayed at the same win rate/pick rate for like an entire year and only after the pre-season changes did his ban rate sky rocket even though nothing about him changed and he didn't even go up in win rate.

It seems his huge ban rate is just "well we hate Zed for probably no apparent reason, WOO HOO! "

Treyen6/1/2016, 9:25:33 AM2 votes

Do not stop until we hit 100%, bois. Eventually even Riot has to take notice and actually do something.

The Deckowner6/1/2016, 3:10:35 PM2 votes

They have a few ways of making him balanced:

actually give him meaningful nerf
Raise his skillfloor, make him that he actually need to do aall the crazy double triple shadow QE to kill people instead of just random RQEAA
make his passive not work on minions so Bonrze V can't just pick him up and free farm

dragon1xx6/1/2016, 4:27:50 AM2 votes

Biggest problem with Zed right now in my totally unbiased jungler's opinion? There are two. First of all, when was the last time you saw another assassin other than Zed do extremely well off of like 2 kills? Secondly, Zed has got too much mobility and his shadows are just used to shoot under turret and wreck people without any actual danger.

TigerbIood5/31/2016, 3:34:52 PM1 votes

Summoners aren't cannon

Bluewintergaming6/1/2016, 8:07:13 PM1 votes

play Talon they said it will be a skill matchup they said zed needs to be nerfed to the point where only people like red mercy can make him win 40% of all games cancer