LoL Champion Build Guides: Zed
Zed the Master of Shadows
Find the best Zed build guides for League of Legends S11 Patch 11.21. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Zed build for the S11 meta. Learn more about Zed's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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[11.21] Max-Depth Master Zed Guide
[11.21] Max-Depth Master Zed Guide
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[Season 11] High Elo Zed Guide I Zed Jg Guide I
[Season 11] High Elo Zed Guide I Zed Jg Guide I
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Everything You Need To Know About Zed 70%WR!
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Desgarron's 1M+ Mastery Point ZED One Trick Season 11 Guide
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-S11- Zed_NinjaGo Build
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SI 7 Zed's Jg Guide
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Zed guide for badut
Zed guide for badut
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ZED99's Build and Runes
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How to obliterate your enemies with Zed on urf.
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DEATHMASTERS ZED COMMUNITY CHALLENGER ELO ZED GUIDE
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SSM's Gold Zed Guide Season 11
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Zed Oneshot Guide DIA+ [S11.17 Updated! [In Depth Builds] +
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[11.17] (S11) 1m+ Zed Carry Games Guide!
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[S11 11.11] S10 Master EUW 80% WR Zed Only - How To Climb Wi
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[11.13] [Master] NEW ITEMS - Free Elo Zed Mid Guide - updat
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"L'ignorance est fatale" - Zed Guide 11.4 [FR]
Zed Build & Runes
If you're looking for the best rune build for Zed we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Zed, as determined by LeagueSpy's calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Zed this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 11.21. However, if you are a new Zed player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Zed!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Zed's Top Items
Zed's Runes
48%
Win Rate 9335 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
48%
Win Rate 4470 Games
Third Best
62%
Win Rate 52 Games
Zed's Summoner Spells
49%
Win Rate 44941 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Zed's Starters
49%
Win Rate 17471 Games
- 1
- 2
Trinket
52%
Win Rate 21494 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
46%
Win Rate 20218 Games
Stealth Ward
Third Best
47%
Win Rate 3753 Games
Farsight Alteration
Don’t forgetto Buy Wards
Zed's Core Items
Boots
Zed's Luxury Items
Zed's Ability Order
66%
Win Rate 2244 Games
- 1
- 2
Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
66%
Win Rate 1910 Games
Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Top Zed Players
Get match statisctics & builds Top Zed Players are using on LeagueSpy!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Zed's Top Items
Zed's Runes
45%
Win Rate 1460 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
57%
Win Rate 65 Games
Third Best
56%
Win Rate 87 Games
Zed's Summoner Spells
46%
Win Rate 17648 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Zed's Starters
46%
Win Rate 5662 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Trinket
47%
Win Rate 15097 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
44%
Win Rate 3506 Games
Stealth Ward
Third Best
46%
Win Rate 412 Games
Farsight Alteration
Don’t forgetto Buy Wards
Zed's Core Items
Boots
Zed's Luxury Items
Zed's Ability Order
69%
Win Rate 949 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
69%
Win Rate 439 Games
Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
66%
Win Rate 138 Games
Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Top Zed Players
Get match statisctics & builds Top Zed Players are using on LeagueSpy!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Zed's Top Items
Zed's Runes
48%
Win Rate 441 Games
- 1
- 2
Second Best
49%
Win Rate 316 Games
Third Best
0%
Win Rate Games
Zed's Summoner Spells
51%
Win Rate 2806 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Zed's Starters
50%
Win Rate 1098 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Trinket
53%
Win Rate 1486 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
48%
Win Rate 1487 Games
Stealth Ward
Third Best
48%
Win Rate 285 Games
Farsight Alteration
Don’t forgetto Buy Wards
Boots
Zed's Luxury Items
Zed's Ability Order
65%
Win Rate 167 Games
- 1
- 2
Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
60%
Win Rate 159 Games
Contempt for the Weak (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Top Zed Players
Get match statisctics & builds Top Zed Players are using on LeagueSpy!
Zed Counters
Learn 's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Zed guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!
This counter data is for Zed Mid in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Zed. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.
Best Against Zed
Worst Against Zed
Zed Skins
Find Zed's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Zed skins and chromas on Zed's skins page.
PsyOps Zed
September 17, 2020
Wishlist
Galaxy Slayer Zed
April 18, 2019
Wishlist
Death Sworn Zed
October 26, 2017
Wishlist
Championship Zed
October 2, 2016
Wishlist
PROJECT: Zed
September 8, 2015
Wishlist
Shockblade Zed
November 13, 2012
Wishlist
Classic Zed
Original
Wishlist
Our Wish List feature will send you notifications when your skins are on sale!Zed's Abilities
Against monsters, Contempt for the Weak deals 200% damage, capped at 300.
Contempt for the Weak can only affect enemy champions once every few seconds.
Living Shadow: Additional shurikens striking the same enemy restore energy.
Zed's shadow will mimic his basic abilities. If both strike the same target Zed regains 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 energy. Energy can only be restored once per mimicked ability.
Zed's slash reduces the cooldown of Living Shadow by 1 second for each enemy struck. His shadows' slashes slow enemies by 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% for 1.5 seconds.
Living Shadow: Overlapping Shadow Slashes striking the same enemy deal no additional damage but will incur an increased slow of 30 / 37.5 / 45 / 52.5 / 60% and restore energy.
After 3 seconds, the mark will detonate, dealing physical damage equal to 100% of Zed's attack damage plus 25 / 40 / 55% of damage dealt of all magic and physical damage dealt to the target by Zed and his shadows while the mark was active.
Questions About Zed
Latest Questions
Is Zed a hard champion?
Zed is a hard champion? or not?
Halloween skins coming back?
Hi guys! I'm a Katarina main and the only skin that I dont have is Kitty Cat, so yeah i want to buy it. The thing is that this skin is a Legacy one so i can't buy it from the shop right now. I've searched in the internet and found that is part of...
Zed runes vs different mid laners?
hello, I would want to know how to change my runes according to the enemy mid laner.
Zed's ult
How to stack Zed's ult
How to MAster ZED ???
WEll iam lvl 6 Zed 90k MP i want to main zed how do i get s or s+ with zed??and combos mechanics??
Who is better in general, Aurelion Sol or Zed?
Generally
How can I improve my Zed Mechanics?
I love Zed's Kit and want to main him pretty hard, except whenever it comes to ranked im too afraid to pick zed (because I feel like my skills won't be enough) What can I do to improve?
how to make zed.yasuo dance and laugh etc....
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zed vs adc mid ... what can be done to make zed win ?!
i can't take it .... it's just unfair ! every time they got zed on mid ( my team ) we face an adc who just wins easily ... what can we do as a solution for this move ... and sometimes we just don't get the enough time to make zed stands on his...
What is the best Zed Skin ?
Is it Shockblade Zed,Project Zed, or Championship Zed?
[Help!] Blacklisted Text That Wasn't There Previously
Hello, I'm the creator of Evanave's In-Depth Guide on Zed, and recently I've run into this error message "Error: Your guide contains blacklisted text." Which is sort of weird since I was obviously able to change and publish previously....
Where's my guide ?
Yesterday I made a guide for Zed. I published it and saved it and when I go to Builds and Guides-Newest Guides-Zed my guide isn't there ?? What I need to do for other people to see it. Guide name is Better Nerf Zed [S6]
I made a guide and I cannot see it
I made a zed build called, "RedMercy's zed build NOT MY BUILD" (I got it from a youtuber) I can't find it. I also Favorited it
Cunning or Resolve for AD assasins?
On all these ad assassins would cunning or resolve be a better choice for your 12 points after putting 18 in ferocity (I don't think you ever take anything but 18 in that tree with these champions although tell me if you would) but I'm not sure if...
How do you win against Zed?
Hello, I've been playing against a few Zed's midlane, but I can't win against them, starting in early game. What do you recommend me to do against Zed? What champion is a good, a bit save, option against him? And how do you play against him in...
