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Zed - The ultimate assassin

ZED G0D·6/2/2015, 10:12:17 PM·1 votes·549 views

So I've been playing league for a while now, and I have almost every champion unlocked so I have played quite a good range of champs..I've come to realizing that Zed is without a doubt the ultimate assassin and an excellent champion to master if you wish to climb the ranked ladder. as an experienced zed player whom id define myself as above average skilled with him. here are some pros and cons which led me to this conclusion.

Pros: -Long range poke (Q, W+Q, W+E) -Slows (W+E) -AOE (E) -Massive burst damage -Multiple escapes -Ability to triple his damage output (maximum of 2 shadows mimicing his abilities) -His ult is a homing ability, and proc's a timer that will damage enemies by a percentatge of damage dealt to them after the ult was casted after 3 sec. and if things go south zed can just jump back to where his shadow is and escape the situation while dealing damage and winning the trade. -the ability to farm without being up close and personal (goes with long range pokes) -No mana, Energy regenerates fairly quickly so if you are laning against someone who relies on mana you can easily ware them down and strike when they are low on mana.

Cons: -Low HP/Defense. Zed is not meant to be a bruiser who can take a lot of hits -Long cooldown on escapes, you have to be mindful and conservative with your W ability. -slow AA, Zed is not really an auto attack based champ, his AA is just fast enough to put a few extra hits in, but not enough to rely on it heavily. item 3153 item 3142 are helpful with this. -Due to zed's low hp, CC is an extreme concern to zed.

In all honesty, I have not really had many problems playing as zed, there were a few challenging matches, but mostly zed is a pretty laid back champ to play, If I know my opponent will destroy me I can just sit waaaay back and use my W+Q+E combos to farm/poke at him until I feel comfortable enough to ult in and get a kill. its very easy to survive as zed and get the most farm on your entire team. I highly recommend Purchasing/mastering this finely tuned champion. for he is without a doubt the deadliest assassin in all of league. Embrace the shadows. Zed

3 Comments

2000boxes6/3/2015, 12:05:11 AM1 votes

to bad he was nerfed recently and this nerf wasn't even because of him being too powerful. He was nerfed because people kept complaining how there was no retaliation for his ult which isn't true at all. There is plenty of point and click cc to deal with zed and his ult can easily be countered with zhonyas, qss, and exhaust. People were just mad that an assassin who builds glass cannon is able to deal damage.