Talk:Zed/@comment-3546228-20150515053819

Zed
 * Death Mark (R) now has a 1 second cooldown after casting the spell to reactive and return to R's shadow.

My 2 cents on this:

Won't have a huge effect in late game, but will really hurt Zed's laning, because it's no longer possible to have kill pressure on midlaners with skillshot hard CC (Xerath, Ahri). Previously when you Death Mark them they'll wait and shoot their CC behind themselves to insta get you. The way to counter this was swapping back to your shadow, then using W to re-engage.

Right now you'll have to stay in the unfavorable position and be forced to W to dodge point blank skillshots, etc.

I don't think it was Zed's laning that made Riot take this step, though. It was the fact that many Zed players took the approach to WW out of fog of war and ult the enemy adc, quickburst, then R back. I never really liked this approach, simply because it puts needless strain on my energy pool and I also like holding on to my ultimate until I have the chance to use it to dodge CC, then retaliate. In the late game you don't really need the Death Mark damage to kill a squishy anyway, just an opportunity to get a few free autos.