Talk:Zed/@comment-5211662-20150106024616/@comment-15244341-20150113172238

IE Zed... Then someone gets armor and GG WP because you deal zero bloody damage 80% of the time and you spent 15+ minutes farming a 3800G item that does nothing for your laning phase. That's a cutlass and a Brutalizer, BTW, which probably give a really reliable kill on most midlaners, sustain in lane and better poke. It also builds from the best Zed start, which is a logsword and 3 pots.

Also, Zed is fine. Now that QSS is cheaper than ever, his late mid-game is pretty much worse than it ever was. With mages rise in popularity he also suffers late game, since a ZH rush is pretty likely to shut down his 1v1 midgame. Plus split pushing nerfs, because those are a thing.

That said, top lane has clear power creep issues with Irelia. So many good anti-Irelia picks got nerfed that she now reigns supreme. Ranged top laners have always been a thing, BTW. Before Gnar and Liss was Ryze, before Ryze was Lulu, before Lulu was Kennen, before Kennen was Jayce... Teemo has always been there, sort of. People just refuse to play lanes in a different way against them.