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Spells:
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Items
Ability Order
Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)
Zed Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
LeBlanc
OMG, this my ninja padawan is your nightmare early game. She has crazy mobility, crazy damage, and crazy other stuff. Just don't die before level 6 or else you lost game. Just farm with Q and W > E. Don't try to poke her. Ask for Ganks. Late game you can kill her because death mark show who is the real "bitch"
Introduction
Welcome! |
Hello ninja padawans! My username is BT BunnyLord (if you want to add me), a Zed main, who usually gets 20/10/5 KDA in a game. Zed is by far my favorite champion in the game, he has easy to earn skills but is very difficult to master. Zed is a mechanically hard champion to understand, but once you do you can pretty much one shot ADCs. The pre-season 6 kind of hit Assassins pretty hard... but Rito made some changes that makes Zed the new nightmare of the century. So do you want to get so many kills that you make Hitler jealous? Do you want to one shot ADCs 4 times faster than Rengar? Do you want to have fun? YES, YES, and UUUHHH... YES! So then follow through my guide for free candy :)
and make sure to CTRL+4 all the time.
Now for Wards. Here is a map where you should ward in the laning phase.
Runes
- Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage: Zed is an AD champion and relies heavily on AD
- greater mark of Armor Penetration: This helps you against tanks or anybody who buys armor.
- Greater Glyph of Magic Resist: This is to say "Screw you AP midlaners!"
- Greater Seal of Armor: This is generally good because with my build you won't get much armor, so it is better if you get +9 armor.
Youmuu's Ghostblade
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You want to rush this item. Why you ask? First off it's active gives you a speed boost so that you can run away from enemies or catch up to them, it also gives you attack speed. Then It gives you 65 AD that's lot's of raw damage! Then It gives you 10% cooldown reduction and that is always great for spamming abilities. |
Duskblade of Draktharr
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Before I tell you what this item does and why it is good on Zed I have to say that I am 100% against the creation of this item, and I was since it was released on the PBE. It removes the uniqueness of Zed and is completely broken. Now this item... all you need to do is get the enemy down to half health when you ult them and just auto attack the once and they will die, NO JOKE. It gives so much AD and movement speed, and armor pen and the best passive this rift has ever seen. Buy this item on every Zed or Talon. |
Ravenous Hydra
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Hydra is a good item on Zed. I would have said to get BORK before but it got GUTTED. It got nerfed so hard. Why Hydra? Well it gives you lots of AD, and more life steal than BORK. This is also an AA reset. So use the active to maximize your burst. This also is a really good item at split pushing because it does AOE damage and goes really well with Death Dance. |
Mobility Boots
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I love these boots because they give you 105 added movement speed only out of combat though, but combine this with Furor and you get the added 12% speed boost when in combat. Other wise take Mercury or Tabi depending on enemy team. |
Death Dance
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This might seem like a weird item on Zed but it is actually really good. It works well with Hydra because of its passive and the AOE damage of Hydra. It also gives you survivability with the other passive. |
Black Cleaver
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Black Cleaver is a good item on Zed because of the added armor pen, health and damage. This would be better on a top laner fighter person, but it works well with Zed too. He does need the 300 added health late game. |
Guardian Angel
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Zed is all about dealing damage and taking none. But sometimes we f*ck up and we get killed, well say no more, guardian angel is here for you. This item gives you armor and magic resistance but if you die then it will revive you, this is really good on zed because it gives him more survivability. |
Maw of Malmortius
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Maw is great on zed because it gives him damage and lots of magic resistance, so if the enemy team has 3 or more AP champions than buy this. It also gives him lots of life steal if you go below 20 % of your health and gives you a shield. I would go for this instead of GA or LORD. You might even consider taking this item second if the enemy team has 3 or more AP champs. |
Lord Dominik's Regards
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Before the pre-season 6 update, Last Whisperer was the go to item for AD assassins, but times have changed my ninja padawan. Last whisperer sucks, and so does Lord, but if there is a lot of tanks on the enemy team make sure to take this because it is better than nothing. |
Zhonya's
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Zhonya's Hourglass is the nightmare of the nightmare... Zhonya's Hourglass is the ultimate counter to Zed. If Zed does his ult and the enemy does a Zhonya's Hourglass then Zed's ult went to waste. To try and prevent this from happening is quite tricky. What you need to do is know that they have the item. When you know they have it you can trick them into thinking you will ult but instead you ult someone else. They will be scared and Zhonya's Hourglass them self. This is not great, but it's better than nothing. |
Quicksilver Sash
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Quicksilver Sash is cheaper than Zhonya. What is does is simple, it removes the Death Mark trigger, but you can still kill them with your combo. Make sure you know that they have it, and if they do try to kill them without the trigger. |
Barrier
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Barrier is not that big of a deal, because it doesn't remove the trigger or make them invulnerable, but it will stop the death mark from killing them if they time it right. Barrier is not that used of a spell, but if they do have keep in find to ignite them during your combo or after your combo. |
Heal
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Heal is quite annoying and every ADC has heal. Make sure to deal lots of damage and try not to rely on death mark to kill them as heal will usually be enough to stop the mark. But you can still kill them, ignite them also. |
Contempt for the Weak: (PASSIVE) Zed's basic attacks against targets below 50% of their maximum health deal 6 / 8 / 10% of their maximum health as bonus magic damage.
This effect can only occur on the same target once every few seconds.
Razor Shuriken: (Q) Active: Zed throws his spinning blades forward, dealing physical damage to the first enemy they pass through and 60% damage to enemies thereafter. Any living shadows also throw a shuriken in the direction of the mouse cursor location. Additional shurikens striking the same enemy deal 50% damage and restores energy. This is your primary damage dealer, you want to spam this ability as much as possible in the laning phase of the game.
Living Shadow: (W) Passive: Zed's bonus attack damage is increased. Active: Zed throws out a shadow at a desired location and the shadow will mimic any of Zed's abilities. You can reactivate this ability to switch position with the shadow only once, so choose wisely and the shadow will only last for 4 seconds. You can escape sticky situations with this.
Shadow Slash: (E) Active: Zed spins his blades, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies and reducing Living Shadow's cooldown by 2 seconds for every enemy champion hit. Active shadows also slash, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies and slowing them for 1.5 seconds. Mimicked slashes that hit targets affected by the primary slash enhance the Slow icon slow by 50% and restore energy, but deal no additional damage. This is what makes Zed really good a clearing minion waves and split pushing. This ability has no AA reset, you can AA while doing this ability, keep that in mind... THE MORE YOU KNOW!
Death Mark: (R) Active: Zed becomes untargetable for 0.75 seconds and dashes behind the target enemy champion. Upon arrival, he marks them for death, and spawns a shadow at the cast location that lasts for 6 seconds. After 0.5 seconds, Death Mark can be reactivated to make Zed swap places with this shadow.
At the end of its duration, Death Mark triggers, dealing physical damage plus a percentage of all physical and magic damage Zed dealt to the target while they were marked. I think this ability is the best ult in the game, it is so fun to use, and you can really get behind enemy lines and kill some one and revert to your cast location. A helpful tip is when your death mark trigger can kill somebody a spinning blade will be over there head.
So, we want to max Q first because it is your primary damage dealer. It got needed really bad over the ages, but it is still good. Once you are level two you want to get Living Shadow W because it gives you more poking range and mobility, though you can get Shadow slash if the enemy is poking you hard so that you can trade some damage. At level three choose the spell that you did not pick yet and then follow the procedure. Max Q Then E Then W and choose R whenever it is available.
This is going to be your primary combo. Yiu throw out your W and then you do your E on the enemy so that they get slowed and the you land both of your shurikens on them. This deals a decent amount of damaging and is great for clearing waves of minions and poking. This will not proc Thunderlords decree unless you press W again and AA him.
This is a great combo for executing an enemy when they have low heath. The diference here is that you are hitting them with your primary shuriken so it deals 100% damage instead of 50%. This also gets you in AA range of them.
This is a good combo for going all in with your ult. This will make 3 shurikens instead of two hit the enemy dealing lots of damage. The downside to this is that you used all of your abilities. You could press R or W to run away afterwards. Make sure you use this combo if the target is all alone, or the enemy team is running away.
This will deal less damage than the combo mentioned above but it will allow you to escape easily because it saves your W. This is good for when there is a intense teamfight. You can also use your W to get closer to an enemy then do this combo to reach the ADC.
Do you get low on energy quickly? Then just W > E someone and that will refund your energy a bit, or just try hitting them with your Q only. You can use your W > W to escape or catch up to someone. If you are trying to escape, you can use E to slow them down, same with catching up to somebody.
Remember to use your ult before your other damaging abilities, your ult takes no energy to cast.
Cons
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-He is not a ranged champion so trying to get CS will eventually lead to the enemy poking you. - Zed is low health, and if you try to get a CS the enemy will poke you hard, and poking you will be easy for them. - Minions are surprisingly smart and will completely outplay you sometimes, so watch out, minions are hidden op ;) |
This champion does have amazing farming capabilities but he has the few disadvantages that most melee champs have, like range. |
The Pros easily outweigh the Cons in this one, Zed is an amazing farmer. He should try Farming Simulator 14, I'm sure he will be good at that game. Also make sure to E first then AA if you want to execute any enemy, you can AA while you are using your E, it is not an AA reset.
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enemy team has immobile champions
and/or not a lot of CC
and/or an ADC with low escape
and/or a squishy top laner like Yasuo or Yi
if your team has a support or champion that has a AOE CC ability like Zyra or Sona
if your team has lot's of AP already
if you want to win! ;)
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