Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-4167645-20121128144117/@comment-3238314-20121129000048

"Using a shadow for farming leaves you without energy upon which the enemy will capitalize"

Agreed. the 6 seconds it takes for you to regenerate enough energy to have Q ready is enough for the enemy to capitalize on, because you're going to sit there in range of his spells all the time.

"Harassing through the shadow does not make it powerful unless you teleport there yourself, because mages already use this, in the form of long range spells."

Razor shuriken - 900 range. Shadow + Shadow slash - 695 range. Shadow + shuriken - 1450 range. Math, funnily enough, says you're wrong. Zed already has long range spells, and sort of outranges, or matches the range of cca. 90% of mids IF you don't count the shadow+shuriken combo. damage wise he doesn't deal as much with only one shuriken, but considering the safety and flexibility this brings, along with spammability i'd say it's powerful enough. And of course, you can add to it by switching and adding meele strikes/slashes.

you are right. he has limiters, and outside of the cooldown of his ult, which is affected only by cdr and therefore unrelated, all are limiters of skill.