Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-201.8.211.87-20121123081233

Right now he seems underpowered but it really seems like he was designed with the S3 items in mind. Let's assume that:

-Zed is level 18 with Infinity Edge and the upcoming Sword of the Divine.

-My math is right.

-He lands his ult, activates SotD and lands his E plus his and his shadow's Q and manages to get the 3 autoattacks with 100% crit chance allowed by SotD. After all of this, total damage done will be:

BonusAD = 1.25 * 80 = 100

TotalAD = 109.8 + BonusAD = 209.8

Damage Done = 209.8 + 1.5 ( 1.5 * 100 + 322.5 + 200 + 80 + 3 * 2.5 * 209.8) = 3698.8

I don't know about you, but that seems pretty high for someone who has a single +AD item. Notably, with both Death Mark and Sword of the Divine activated (and IE purchased) Zed does 109.8 + 4.6875pbad per autoattack, up to a total of 329.4 + 14.0625pbad with 3 crits given by SotD. Generally, the combo specified here does:

2128.8 + 15.7pbad

(or? 2293.5 + 17.2pbad if you manage to stick a Ravenous Hydra in your build somewhere)

which to me seems quite high. Zed's late game scaling is off the charts due to the multiplicative nature of Death Mark and Living Shadow's passive, making the use of crit and item activations quite powerful by him. To give an idea, the addition of a Bloodthirster to the original scenario increases damage done from 3698.8 to'''? 5661.3 which is about a 65%''' increase.

Sorry about the long-winded post, I kind of get carried away and I've gotten annoyed at people saying Zed does no damage.