Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-94.195.178.233-20130120131549/@comment-178.166.24.118-20130121013021

1. Mid or top as a counter pick. He absolutely dominates the lane against the right matchups and snowballs like crazy with just one kill advantage. Why not in the jungle you may ask? For the same reason you'd also want Kha'Zix in a lane: the jungle doesn't have enough gold for assassins. You either pull a XJ9 and steal cs from lane all day or you'll fall behind in relevance pretty quickly assuming the enemy team doesn't madly feed you.

2. Strong early game, very strong mid game, strong late game. Early game you will farm easily with autos and Q and you should trade at least even with most melee champions while also not get zoned against ranged thanks to your awesome kit. After you have your three abilities you should start maxing E and harss with W+E, looking to get the enemy laner low enough for the kill. From lvls 6 to 11 is when Zed really shines. His ult smokes squishies and after his E is maxed he clears waves in a split second. Then you roam all day to other lanes to apply pressure and force objectives. A mid-game fed Zed is pratically a gg unless your whole team is behind. Late game he has around 400 AD thanks to his W and simply kills anyone from 100 to 0 as long as they don't have a Warmogs combined with some other HP item or a Zhonyas. However he does get shutted down very hard by CC and he's somewhat squishy himself with a carry build.

3. Probably one of the funniest champions to play because you won't just faceroll with him like pre-nerf Kha'Zix or Rengar, you actually need skill to pull it off. And like any other assassin, if you go 0-4 in a lane you will need your team to carry your mid game which is sad since that's supposed to be Zed's strongest phase. But hey, wards and skill alone are enough to not put you at 0-4.