Talk:Zed/@comment-24324564-20150907154359/@comment-15280970-20150909115230

Nah, it´s not really that the point. Well I play a lot of zed, I play him top lane too, and win a lot (70% WR, choose to belive me or not this is just a detail).

The thing is, zed does not fit well every single team comp, and players don´t really care about team comps other than bronzodia (AOE CC + AOE Magic Damage) till they hit Diamond IV.

In other words, Zed will often mess with teamcomps or will get countered by enemy teams. You know, lack of AP damage on your team, lack of tankyness, lack of poke, lack of CC, lack of initiation, excess of AD carries in your team (Yasuo Top, YI JG), lack of a secondary threat to the enemy carries.

Then we got the enemy team: Good Peel (Janna, Lulu), Safe AD carries (Lucian, Corki), harder to itemize teams (a good mix of AD and AP will force him to build two defensive items), and Kayle jg, Lissandra top and Cho mid may mess with him too.

Zed is no longer (in fact he almost never was) an old kassadin pick that won every game no matter the composition. First pick zeds will lose hard because they give the enemy team an extremely clear path to choose their picks and their build paths. This will often mean a mediocre late game for him and his team.

Enemies buying QSS or Zhonya´s do not mean that his late game will be bad. Not if those buys dealy or negate other important items that the enemy carries need (Zhonya´s often delays the rabbadon´s or Void staff), or in the case of an AD carry that also gets chased by a  tank, he may need aside from QSS, a LW to melt tanks and some Armor to avoid death.

QSS and Zhonya´s are not also an instant negation to his ultimate. For QSS, A fed zed will only need his ult because of the mobilty, killing the enemy carry regardless of QSS. For Zhonya´s, noobs often get nervous and throw zhonya´s as soon as zed ults them. This means that the mark will proc anyway because zhonya´s lasts 2.5s and Zed´s ult procs in 3s. So you will be able to land a triple shuriken + E before the ult proc with a  good timing because you will know exactly when the enemy will be past those 2.5 seconds.