Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-5660237-20121219004528/@comment-99.237.78.15-20121220223321

he still functions well even without his ult for damage, and potentially deals more damage on a single target than most assasssins. Hell, with his damage output and the right itemization, he could even kill tanks and bulky bruisers with his ult, which can't really be said about that many assassins.

As Rapacious said, positioning and itemization. That's all you really need to do well with Zed. That and landing the shurikens. You really overstate his dependence on his ult. He provides great aoe damage in a team fight, is pretty flexible in his itemization due to the living shadow passive, and has a great early game due to living shadow shuriken combos.

Besides, Panth only brings his QWE combo to the team fight, Talon can only do his combo once a team fight on one person, Kata has no flexible escape or CC, Leblanc scales down in late game unless fed and Irelia is rarely played as just an assassin. You play Irelia like Wukong; a bulky bruiser who jumps on the squishy to kill them. I'm just saying that if Zed has weaknesses, so do other assassins.