User blog comment:Makbloo/Patch 3.7 thoughts/@comment-4743916-20130516031644/@comment-4743916-20130518215435

While I would agree with you Qwerty, Zed doesn't only hit single targets the way LeBlanc does. His Q and E do a tremendous amount of AoE damage on top of the rest of the team in a teamfight along with his high singe target damage on the person he deathmarks. Therefore, his scaling in a teamfight is a lot more problematic than a typical assasin because he can get away with chunking more than just 1 squishy target when he "all-ins."

The nerf to his E is going to be pretty hard on him because he won't be able to spam it twice in one living shadow at level 1 without ample CDR.