How to Play Zed | League of Legends

Zed Guide League Of Legends

Hello, today we are going to talk about zed in different lanes and different play styles

About Zed

Zed is an assassin champion released in 2012 and uses energy as resource and scales with AD

Pros:

Zed is one of the strongest 1v1 champions in midlane and can dominate his opponents if played right
he also scales really good in mid game-late game so playing safe and not risking too much can be an option
Zed has high one target burst damage and can oneshot enemy squishy champions like ADCs or mages so entering a fight in the right time is a must
Zed currently has the fastest jungle clear in the game with 2:57 clear time and can set up a gank pretty fast or recall for an item power spike
because of his passive ability, Zed is one of the best champions to last hit minions and farm without missing CS

Cons:

Zed scales good in mid game-late game but he is not that strong in early game and can get punished quite hard
since most of his damage comes from his passive, Q and his ultimate he needs scaling, also his skill shots require more energy in early game so its recommended to not risk and play safer
It is harder to land your skill shots since his W casts a shadow clone of himself which can cast his other abilities so you need to focus on 2 skill shots at once
if you are a player who always goes all in to win a fight you need to know that Zed requires so much patience since a wrong move can cost a whole losing lane and its not easy to turn back to a game with a behind assassin

How To Play Zed ( abilities )

Q:Razor Shuriken

Zed and his shadow throw their shuriken and dealing damage in a line

W:Living Shadow

Zed creates a shadow of himself which can cast Razor shuriken and Shadow slash and can recast to teleport to the clone

E:Shadow slash

Zed and his shadow Slashes enemies around them, enemies hit with shadow’s slash are slowed

R:Death mark

Zed becomes untargetable and dashes to an enemy champion and marking them, after 3 seconds the mark triggers repeating a portion of all the damage zed dealt to the target while they were marked

Passive:Contempt for the weak

Zed’s basic attack deals extra magic damage for the low health enemies, this effect occur once in a few secends for enemy champions but occur infinitly for non-champion foes

Midlane runes and items

if your opponent is a fighter champion you might wanna play with conqueror rune with presence of mind, legends:haste and coup de grace and as secondary runes sorcery axiom arcanist and Trancendence with attack speed, adaptive force and health scaling

recommended item are Eclipse>Voltaic>Spear of Shojin>Serylda’s Grudge>Edge of night with Ionian boots

if your opponent is a mage or assassin champion you might like to play with electrocute rune with sudden impact, grisly mementos and ultimate hunter and as secondary runes precision coup de grace and triumph with adaptive force, adaptive force and health scaling

recommended item are same but voltaic is bought first

summoner spells are ignite and flash if you are playing electrocute and teleport and flash if you are playing with conqueror

Zed Jungle ( How to play )

You will start with blue side because blue buff will fill up your energy much faster and gives you ability haste
the runes and item are chosen almost same as Zed Midlane but the difference is to choose your runes according to number of fighters and mages/assassins in the enemy team
for example if enemy has more than 2 fighter champions, you choose conqueror
if they have more than 2 mages/assassins you choose electrocute
if the numbers are equal you will need to check your own team to check if you need more burst damage or more durability
summoner spells are smite and flash if you need more mobility or smite and ignite if you can handle enemy skill shots