Talk:Zed/@comment-14066630-20140102010241/@comment-7434112-20140110180037

Zed is a probably one of the hardest of the assasins, you need to be able to keep tabs on your shadows as they are your engage/escapes, be able to know when to use them (i.e to dodge important skills like a brand combo) and know when to go in (common for most champs). Its quite different from other assasins like Kha'zix who at later points in the game, can E-Q-W kill and E out, or Fizz who rally just needs 1 item to be able to murder people by Q-W-and either E for more damage or E out when you secure the kill and so on.

I don't reaaly have any experience on Xerath but would suggest halding off on him until the rework comes out as you'd have to change your playstyle if you buy him and may just waste your IP if you don't like it.