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Recommended Items
Runes:
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
Ability Order
Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)
Zed Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Ahri
Ahri is a champion that can easily burst you down with her e, q, w combo and once you appear out of her ult, she just dashes away. Play safe against her and avoid her charms. If you can time it right, you can ult her just as she charms to avoid it.
Welcome
I apologize for not updating this guide in a while, somewhat forgot about mobafire for a while but decided to update my guide again now that Zed has changed quite a lot since my last update somewhere around mid season 8.
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I am still fairly new to guide making, and if you have any suggestions please leave a comment so I can make this guide best as possible. The visuals of the guide aren't the greatest, but I will try and make the content as best as possible.
Pros
+ Great Splitpusher + Good laning phase + Extremely Powerful 1v1 + Easy to CS with ![]() + Great outplay potential + Decent teamfight with blue buff energy regen and tons of AOE damage |
Cons
- Squishy - Can only be played 1 lane - Vulnerable to CC (like all assasins) - Vulnerable without ![]() - Hard to come back if you fall behind - Can't carry easily as mostly single target elimination. |
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Contempt for the Weak (Passive) BONUS DAMAGE: 6%/8%/10% COOLDOWN: 10 |
Deal bonus magic damage to enemies below 50% health, cannot activate on the same target again for a few seconds. This a great passive for csing as the bonus damage makes it so you can kill minions much easier. The bonus damage is also great for bursting down enemies, and is even better for tanks. Even if there is a full armor stacking ![]() ![]() |
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Living Shadow (W) COST: 40/35/30/25/20 MAX RANGE: 650 DURATION: 5 MAX BLINK RANGE: 1300 COOLDOWN: 20/18.5/17/15.5/14 ENERGY RESTORED: 30/35/40/45/50 |
Throws out a Shadow that stays in place for a few seconds, mimicking all basic spells cast by ![]() ![]() ![]() This ability is your primary way to get off your ![]() then using E, then throwing double shurikens will proc ![]() |
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Shadow Slash (E) COST: 50 RADIUS: 290 COOLDOWN: 5/4.5/4/3.5/3 DAMAGE: 70/95/120/145/170 (+80% bonus AD) ENERGY RESTORED: 30/35/40/45/50 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This ability is sadly your only form of cc, being a weak one as well. This ability helps you CS under tower and mainly just some extra damage, while also slowing enemies for your WEQ combo allowing you to hit your ![]() |
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Death Mark (R) COST: No Cost RANGE: 625 COOLDOWN: 120/90/60 DAMAGE: 100% AD (+25/35/45% Damage Dealt) |
![]() ![]() ![]() This ability is probably your biggest play maker, having many parts to it. You can combo it with your abilities in many ways, such as setting up a triple shuriken to deal massive damage. This ability is also great for dodging abilities, so use it wisely in a fight. This also gives you a lot of lane pressure against your opponent, so just before you hit six try to get ready and all in at level 6, usually catching enemies off guard and letting you pick up a free and easy kill. (Tip, a shuriken appears above an opponents head if the Mark from ![]() |




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WIP: Currently, I actually prefer Taste of Blood. For just hitting your Q's you get a bit of health back which is great for sustain in lane considering you are melee, and the lethality of sudden impact is not as beneficial as one might think considering when you WEQ you fire your abilities usually before you dash, meaning they are not affected by the bonus lethality.
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WIP: Some secondary rune page, Precision (any two combinations of these runes, Triumph, Coup de Grace, Legend: Tenacity)
Inspiration: If you want to hop on board the meta train inspiration is quite good, essentially you can make use of majority of runes, such as biscuit, time warp tonic, free boots, perfect timing, minion dematerilizer. Recommended for tought lanes as you can get some extra sustain, free stopwatch, or some minion dematerilizers in order to farm easier.
Obviously, you add a point in your ult whenever you can at 6, 11, and 16. Then you max Q first as it's your main poke and deals more damage. Then you want to max E next as it deals damage, but not as much as your

I prefer taking your



- R, W, E, Q, R: This is for when you want to all in, you initiate with your R, W away for additional escape route and land triple shurikens, and if you did it right and ulted a squishy, they should be dead. This is Zed's main combo and what you will be doing most of the time.
(Will be adding more combos soon)
Flash
This should be one of your main spells on zed, as early game your 
Ignite
This should usually be your second spell, as it will help you get ahead in lane, and secure kills.That's pretty much the only spells I ever take on



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This is one of the most important items to get on ![]() ![]() |
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Definitely a great buy on ![]() |
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Nice damage and good magic resist. If your up against heavy ap or your ap laner gets fed, definitely buy this. If you buy it during lane, only get the ![]() as it's more beneficial to finish other items before finishing this one. |
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If you are snowballing hard and fed, or it is late game, just get this item. Damage, armor, and a free revive for very cheap. One of the most money efficient items you can buy on ![]() |
(Video showing Tiamat and E being used at the same time.)
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This item is essentially just another version of duskblade, and with the new changes not very good on Zed anymore if you already have duskblade. Don't really recommend it much anymore. |
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Now that this item gives bonus AD instead of base AD, it is godly on ![]() |

1: Have your team bait baron or dragon, and splitpush in whatever is the furthest lane from the objective your trying to bait (if drag, go top, if baron, go bot).
2: Try and get picks onto enemy carries. With ultimate hunter and level 3 ult, your ultimate should be up in time for you to fight while the carry is dead, leaving an easy 4v5.
3: Teamfight, not really the most ideal option but if you are fed enough and skilled enough, you should be able burst down enemy carries. I would recommend stormrazor if the enemy has a utility support such as [janna] or [nami] as with the bonus damage you should be able to w, e, q combo the enemy support to one shot them, then still have your ult to kill a carry.

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