Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-4296199-20130527021047/@comment-4296199-20130529165147

my oldest gripe about his poke combo was that you gave up the escape in order to harass like that. If the jungler came to give a hard time, he would be left with no escape. However, razor shuriken is a good enough harass leveling up that skill with at least having shadow slash meant that the living shadow shadow slash could make it much easier to hit with that skill.

I was originally angry with Riot with how they nerfed shadow slash in a way that not only didn't touch his laning phase but hurt every other part of his game play. Now that it has happened, I'm just trying to learn more about the reality of how he is OP. So far, all I know of is his laning phase is too strong. However, his ult isn't really that amazing. It requires planning with the energy to know you can perform it, it requires input from Zed to perform the damage and if Zed gets CC'd in the middle of his combo, then the damage is greatly weakened.