Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-128.174.115.3-20121204023414

I find this champ to have a very high skill cap. Yes he's got some good amount of pokes, but his harass is not spammable; too little energy for that, unless you hit every single one of your shadow-assisted skillshots.... He would wind up being much more user friendly if he had mana; at least you could mitigate his energy costs/too-low regen.

I am just wondering if Riot made Zed manaless just because he's a flippin' ninja (all ninjas use energy) or to balance out his early game vs late game... Early game he's good because of the energy mechanics (it's a form of sustain), late game he's limited by those very same mechanics (W passive makes up for that a little). He's kind of a hit-or-miss champ. Hit it and you potentially multikill, miss it and you are useless for the rest of the teamfight. Again, dat energy regen: too slow during teamfights.