Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-4296199-20130527021047

I've been thinking on why he's considered "OP" in lane, and based on what I've been hearing people say, here is a reason that I thought about.

His laning is broken. Has to do with a few things really. He's able to destroy creeps too fast, and can do it from a relatively safe distance, all while being able to harass the enemies from countering his actions or even farming. The thing is is that they are kind of right. Sure, Zed's got a 14 second CD on living shadow, he eats through it too fast, gap closers can destroy him and armor stops alot of the damage, but there's the case of shadow slash with living shadow. The total range for the two skills are over 800 range. For most gap closers in solo top, they don't really have the range to go through the distance, and the CC prevents them from reacting well.

The thing is, is that the moves come out too fast. Most projectiles typically have a limitation to prevent damage through evasion or range difference. Gap closers on average have between 500-700 range, while the typical projectile with longe range can be dodged. For Zed, shadow slash just appears as soon as you're within range, and you can't really react or dodge it in time. From there, Zed can follow up with razor shuriken, and you take damage without really being able to react back. Zed put no commitment to this offense, yet pulls out a combo. Sure, it costs alot of energy, but energy is strong for it's laning phase. Just living shadow shadow slash, and that's easily over 100 damage and above without counter play. No way to dodge, only tank with potential to follow up with razor shuriken. This gets worse when you're at mid, where damage like that comes out hard. While the range isn't as large as someone like Lux, it moves considerably faster than most projectiles, and can't really be dodged.

While there are other reasons for this and/or this might be wrong, let's all discuss about this and see whether Zed's got big problems or not. Rather than mulling about that nerf, I want to discuss what's OP about him and see where the problems might lay.