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Updated on May 7, 2025

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Recommended Items

Eclipse

Voltaic Cyclosword

Serylda's Grudge

Serpent's Fang

Edge of Night

Spear of Shojin

Crimson Lucidity

Runes: First Strike (Sorc)

1 2 3 4 5

Inspiration

First Strike

Cash Back

Triple Tonic

Jack of all Trades

Sorcery

Transcendence

Scorch

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10-180 Bonus Health

Inspiration

First Strike

Cash Back

Triple Tonic

Jack of all Trades

Precision

Legend: Haste

Cut Down

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10-180 Bonus Health

Domination

Electrocute

Sudden Impact

Grisly Mementos

Ultimate Hunter

Sorcery

Transcendence

Scorch

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10-180 Bonus Health

Domination

Electrocute

Sudden Impact

Grisly Mementos

Ultimate Hunter

Precision

Legend: Haste

Cut Down

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10-180 Bonus Health

Precision

Conqueror

Triumph

Legend: Haste

Cut Down

Sorcery

Transcendence

Gathering Storm

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10-180 Bonus Health

Spells:

1 2

Take 99% of games

Flash

Ignite

Take 1% of games

Flash

Teleport

Items

Initial buys

Doran's Blade

Doran's Shield

Refillable Potion

Long Sword

First Strike

Eclipse

Crimson Lucidity

Serpent's Fang

Serylda's Grudge

Spear of Shojin

Voltaic Cyclosword

Hubris

Black Cleaver

Electrocute

Eclipse

Voltaic Cyclosword

Serylda's Grudge

Serpent's Fang

Edge of Night

Spear of Shojin

Crimson Lucidity

Conquerer

Eclipse

Hubris

Black Cleaver

Lord Dominik's Regards

Spear of Shojin

Serpent's Fang

Armored Advance

Crimson Lucidity

Chainlaced Crushers

Ability Order Basic skill order

1 2

Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)

Zed Passive Ability

Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)

Zed Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Ahri

Even

Pretty skill based matchup, but if she's bad, you win.

Respect her poke early, hide behind minions to stop her E.

Poke her with WEQ combo when you can and all in when shes low.

Doran's Shield + health pot start.

Anivia

Major

Pretty damn annoying and she outscales you decently hard.

Don't really focus on killing her in lane - her passive makes it super hard for you to get a lead solely off of killing her in lane.

Focus roaming to help your other lanes and farming while in lane.

Doran's shield and health pot start.

Akali

Major

Skill matchup. Bait out her W and all in her while its on CD. Dodge her E or E2 with your ult.

Longsword + refillable start.

Aurelion Sol

Tiny

Easy. Free.

Every time he tries to q, that's your window to WEQ.

All in when hes low and / or when he doesn't have his w to get out.

Once you've got 6, you should never lose to him 1v1.

Longsword + refill start.

Akshan

Major

Skill matchup, but he doesn't need to be much better than you to win.

Stay out of wave so you don't get hit by his q while he farms. Ping missing when he's gone post 3.

Doran's shield start.

Annie

Minor

Pretty easy to kill in lane - especially pre 6.

If she's holding her stuns for when you all in, she's also not using them for anything else. Poke her heaps using WEQ and all in the second she uses her stun.

Longsword refill start

Aurora

Major

She's a menace if she knows to hold her w for when you all in. Bait it out before you look for the kill. Don't let her stack her passive on you or it'll chunk.

Doran's shield start.

Azir

Even

Skill matchup but most people suck on this champ so you should win most games against him.

WEQ him when you can, all in when you see him use his E badly. Stay away from his soldiers as much as you can, using your q's to farm from a safe distance.

Ult just before he ults and you fully dodge the wall, blocking him in with you.

Doran's shield start.

Fizz

Extreme

******** stupid champ who I personally permaban.

His w CLEANSES YOUR ULt. So either never focus him in a fight or only ult him when you know his w is on cd.

Other than that respect his damage - especially post 6 - and look to roam as much as you can.

I hate him.

Longsword refil start.

Hwei

Even

Pre easy if you can dodge his skillshots.

Most just QE EE the wave, the second you see his cc come out you can go in.

Doran's shield start

Katarina

Even

Skill matchup. You win if you don't step on her daggers.

W away from her and ult her when she tries to ult, then recast w and full combo her while shes spinning at nothing.

Longsword refill start.

Kassadin

Minor

**** on him as much as you can early and get a good lead.

He's bound to outscale you late game but you can aim to make his life hell before that.

Longsword refill start.

LeBlanc

Extreme

Hate her. Hateeeee her.

Dodge or ban.

If you decide you hate yourself and want to play against this abomination, make sure you dodge her E's.

If you notice she's instantly recasting w after a trade, hold your w until after she teleports back then run her down.

Doran's shield start / longsword + refill

Lissandra

Major

Easy if you know what you're doing and dodge her Q pokes.

Bait out her ult and NEVER TOWERDIVE HER SOLO.

Longsword refill start.

Lux

Tiny

Piss easy matchup.

Walk up and then to the side and shes 99% sure to throw out an e behind you. Lux's never think about their enemy walking horizontally.

You can walk right up to her and ult her as she casts her q to dodge the root.

Longsword refill start / dorans shield if you're a *****

Malphite

Major

You don't kill this ****er in lane ever. Your main goal now is to survive laning phase and then never interact with him again.

Longsword + refill start

Malzahar

Even

Scorch is great into him since you can q him a little earlier than his passive cd and the scorch will still proc his spellshield the second it comes back up.

QSS is good if you're finding hes ulting you in fights.

Shove waves and roam, don't stand close to infected minions.

Doran's shield start.

Mel

Even

Matchup entirely revolves around how good she is with holding her W.

Try bait it out with WQ and see how quickly she reacts. if she's holding it instead of reactively pressing it, WQE her to get your q's to hit before she can react. If the opposite is true and shes just blindly throwing out her W, just hold your Q after Wing for a second and then Q after her W's down.

Her W also makes her INVULNERABLE during the period. Make sure its on cd for when your ult pops or she'll negate the entire dmg.

Doran's shield start

Naafiri

Minor

Pretty fun matchup. If she ults you when you're close to your tower you can W under it and give her a free tower shot.

Dodge her Q's - especially her 2nd Q if you're hit by the first one.

All in her when she's low and has no W.

Longsword + refill start.

Orianna

Even

All based around if you can bait her Q's or not. Try to get poked as little as possible in lane and wean her hp down with small trades when you can.

Doran's shield start

Qiyana

Major

Skill matchup, but if she's a good qi you lost most times.

Focus on poking and farming, you don't really need to kill her in lane. Try to outroam her and get more pressure on the map.

Longsword refill start.

Sylas

Even

Only a hard matchup if you give him a lead early game.

He's THE midlane statchecker and will force a trade everytime he has his abilities up. Stay behind minions and don't let him full combo you.

Poke him down and ult him after he's used his E.

Longsword refill start.

Syndra

Minor

Easy matchup if you dodge her QE's.

Walk up then sidestep when you feel she's about to EQ you. Once her E is on CD, you're free to bully her for a good 8 seconds at least.

Longsword refill start / doran's shield

Twisted Fate

Tiny

EZPZ if you bait out his W. Perma all in him when its on CD and there's no way you lose.

Longsword refill start

Veigar

Minor

Don't get poked by him and don't w where he has caged.

You can ult him and hold your W for getting out of his cage and doing some follow up dmg.

Longsword refill start.

Vex

Minor

Bait out her fear and shes a free kill.

Your W recast counts as a dash so just watch for her empowered autos after you w.

Longsword refill start.

Viktor

Major

Viktor only misses his E when he wants to. Its nearly impossible to dodge the initial E dmg.

Tank the E and all in him pre 6. Post 6 just play for team and poke / all in when he has no way to get out.

Doran's shield start

Vladimir

Major

You can kill him in lane if you poke him heavily and bait out his W, late game will be a lot harder and he's not really your job to kill.

Longsword + refill start / doran's shield

Yasuo

Major

Skill matchup but you should win if you know what you're doing.

Ult his q3 when you can and he'll be a sitting duck. Go E lvl 2 so that when he dashes onto you for a trade you have some potential of out-trading him.

Sidestep A LOT to stop him from hitting easy Q's.

Longsword + refill start.

Yone

Even

Same thing as yasuo. Sidestep a lot to dodge his Q's and level E at lvl 2 to get more early trade dmg. W to his E spot if he's low and still fighting.

Longsword refill start

Zed

Even

???? Why are you playing swiftplay bro?????

Whoever hits more q's wins pretty much. Don't get baited and don't fall behind in cs. Follow his roams with your own.