Talk:Zed/@comment-24869135-20140426224345/@comment-24055932-20140506193829

It is interesting, on all levels his winrate seems to be low, on bronze as in diamond, even in challenger his winrate is most of the time under 45%.

I'd guess it mostly is because people itemize him with as much utility as they can: They want to be an assassin with ult, want to be able to duell someone with autoattacks and abilities and still not be a glass cannon. This leads to an itemization that centers around penetrations and some items with attack speed, but specially items with actives or trigger-effects like BotRK, Youmuu's, SotD or even Trinity.

By doing that he gains a devastating nuke with ult, as you have the penetrations (flat and percentual) and the burst - just that his ult got just too much counterplay. QSL for the Adc, Zhonyas for the Apc, and your ult is useless, unless you get into a straight duell with a tank. Because of that, Zed is just devastating right after he gets BotRK, but falls off, as he won't be able to assassinate anybody important once they built their antidote to his ult. So what he really needs is something to abuse his scalings - which means alot of AD, and something to use it. But instead of stacking BT and getting a LW people seem to try to force him as assassin - something that propably won't work.

Once his ult is blown, he got no hard engage, his living shadows can be easily outmanouvered, and if he uses it to get in the fight, he can't get out - with other words: Without his ult, Zed becomes a minor factor in any fight - so unless his q and e will melt squishies to half HP, he got a really low impact.

This is mainly an addition to Rd71 - his 3 points really hit the bullseye.