Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-71.196.160.65-20121114052001

Living Shadow flattened to 16 seconds at all ranks. This is what he needs. Right now people are failing because they think Zed is an assassin, when really he's a poke champ with a burst combo when he has his ult up. His W is not primarily a gap closer. It's a range extender to his other abilities that can be used as a gap closer/escape situationally. Throw your W near the enemy, hit E, hit a double Q, optionally jump in for an autoattack. This is his combo, it's pretty good, pretty safe but takes more skill to execute than your average combo. Right now his problem is he can only use it every third trade. 22 second W cooldown means you have to feebly throw out a Q not once but twice in between using your combo. Riot needs to make it so you can use it every other exchange. All the cries of UP were predictable with such an outside-the-box champion who looks like an assassin and is tagged as an assassin but is really a poke champ who can press R to assassinate people. The only reason he's really UP right now is because he can only be played properly every 22 seconds.