Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-109.165.204.218-20121104201920/@comment-109.165.204.218-20121104220832

It's a bit difficult to account for Zed's cooldown reduction on W, but skill order has minimal effect with Zed, it's just a bit less base damage in 3.5 and 7 when you level E over Q (because of his Shadow+Ult work better with 1.5*Q damage than 1*E damage), and a bit more at 12 seconds. Ratio remains unchanged since it's unaffected by skilling up. I'd say in conclusion Zed has a bit more burst in less than 3.5 seconds since Kha'Zix needs 3 autoattacks and 2 Qs to use up his full damage, but after that KZ just takes over, not so much in base damage but his ratios are quite a bit higher. Also Kha'Zix's burst doesn't depend on his ult so much, so I'd say KZ might be a little better at assassinating than Zed is. And much better at being a damage dealing offtank.