Zed counter: Zed being in an underwhelming state for a long time and the short end of the stick( unless played by mains and one-tricks), is back in the spotlight with a series of small buffs for him and also nerfs to tank supports and few resolve runes in general. Also since the mana changes, it has made it easier for assassins like LOL Zed to come back and shine again since mages who have high mana costs and low resources to manage have to now decide to either use their abilities and mana in clearing the wave by hitting minions or harassing the opponent laner by hitting them.

Patch:
8.17

Win Rate:
49.14%

Play Rate:
5.53%

Ban Rate:
5.00%

Win Rate by
Game Length:
49.03%

Tips To Deal With Zed Counter 8.19

1)Zed has a long cooldown on his W, living shadows which can be used defensively to escape or offensively to deal damage from a distance. Take this cooldown into mind, since he is very vulnerable to ganks and attacks in general when its not off-cooldown, so try to coordinate your trades with that in mind to deal with him.

2) Zed will burst you easily from 100-0 as long as he is in the hands of a good player with his Razor Shurikens, so when you feel he is being too dominant in lane with his pokes and you are not able to have worthy trades, make sure to rush Zhonya’s Hourglass which will make it easier to deal with him and also stop most of his burst damage by stasis.

3) Zed is a Physical Damage dealing assassin, and there are plenty of armor items to help neglect some or most of his damage for you. It is more worthy to save gold towards defensive items when your lane is not going well than straight up going for the core items for your champion as it will prevent counter Zed or at least make it harder to snowball of you by reducing kill potential on you.

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4) Leagues of Legends Zed’s passive is a very sneaky and sly ability. It deals an extreme amount of bonus damage to low-health targets and this damage is very overwhelming early on into the game which can go unnoticed most of the times. So avoid staying next to Zed under half of your health to be safe and not get cheesed and killed by him when there is absolutely no need to put yourself in such a risky position.