Talk:Zed/@comment-26571846-20170712193155/@comment-15280970-20170812174103

Well that's how everyone would want it to be. But LoL has something called the random factor and it will make bad zeds get fed and good zeds deal 0 damage from time to time. This is exacerbated by how his skillset allows for easily kill low health targets and snowball or deal 0 damage without any cc doing nothing.

Outsmarting zed shouldn't be something focused just on how to lane vs him but by having a playstyle that doesn't allow him to carry.

This means that his laning is pretty safe he's still a high risk high reward pick in the sense he can become extremely fed or extremely useless depending on the situation.

The key factor to beating zed is simply to not let him undermine your champion's influence. Have seen lux, TF, velkoz, kassadin, Ahri, etc. beat zeds and most of the time it isn't because they raped zed early game but because they did what they were supposed to do even if they laned against zed, got good farm, got some kills, droped some towers. Other picks are overall much more consistent.