Talk:Zed/@comment-5211662-20150106024616/@comment-15244341-20150117165433

"Now, any noob can play him and do well if he's lucky enough. IE zed evolves into a 40 s cd kill enemy carry bot."

This suggest laning fase or at least midgame. That's the reason I assumed the IE is the first (or close to) buy. Carries should never be alone with no ward coverage past 20+ minutes, much less if there is a splitpushing assassin in the enemy team. Which doesn't mean it won't happen, but that's not so much Zed being overpowered as it is Zed doing his job and the ADC being careless and not acknowledging what Zed's whole schtick is.

And unless the enemy team is full of squishies with zero defensive tech (usually midlane champions fit this bill) you do need your ult proc to kill. Specially in teamfights when you are getting exhausted 100% of the time if that's up. Or you are extremely fed, in which case you'd better hope any other lane starts winning too or everyone will eventually counter your ultimate (Zhonya for mages, QSS for ADCs).

Also, it's the other way around. BotRK was nerfed for Zed, since the active part (which mattered the most to zed in regards to how his ult interacted with the % of max HP damage) was lowered in favor of better % current HP on autos. And while his early game is pretty safe, it's by no means unbeatable. Syndra destroys zed pre-6, and Syndra is pretty much the standard against which inmobile mages measure themselves right now. Orianna I can't think of any nerfs that make her lane vs Zed any harder. She still will rush a Seeker's Armguard, put some points in shield and harass Zed while farming.

Also, the popularity of support mages makes it even harder to kill someone late game in a teamfight. Not only you have to fight exhaust, but in case of Janna there is a massive shield plus a heal that pushes you back. Or the tornado, which is really easy to time with how predictable Zed's positioning after he ult is. Even better is Soraka. Have fun, since you'll land in a wonderful pool of silence that will root you if properly timed with little to no counterplay. Also, she heals for a ton so poking the enemy team befor going in is pretty much useless.

That's not to say Zed is weak or anything like that. He isn't and he is really strong. But he is definitely not as strong as people seem to make him. His teamfighting late game is weaker than ever and he actually can have issues splitpushing now that they've nerfed that strategy and almost every top laner takes TP.

Also, Zed is not easy to play. I highly doubt someone can pick Zed first time and dominate with him in any sort of way in higher divisions.