Talk:Zed/@comment-8733289-20150721013415/@comment-24496127-20150728123918

Out of every Assassin a zed that the enemy team actually bothers to build against is by far the most useless.

Ap's get a zhonyas, ad's get a qss, and if zed's ulting tanks then he's basically already lost. As for Zed's w, thats what makes his laning strong, and is used to trade or escape, he can't do both, unlike a fizz that can either dash or hop in then use the other to get out. Zhonyas is also pretty easy to build up to, and considering it completely invalidates Zed's kill pressure on you, and gives a good amount of ap, I'd say 3000 is more than worth it.

Too many people get a first item chalice against Zed then complain when he stomps them.

To adress the original post, Zed's ultimate is still strong just because the rest of his kit is strong, and while I wouldn't mind a slightly lower early game cooldown, I'm just glad zed is in a state where he's usable right now. Besides, with too low of a cooldown Zed will have the problem Darius used to have when his ultimate was a full reset, if he gets ahead he'll just kill you again and again with no window of vulnerability.