Talk:Zed/@comment-7818256-20131110231004/@comment-4296199-20131122010729

except that he can't slow people with his shadow slash when ulting unless he uses living shadow, which is kinda clunky because the slowed the projectile speed. I actually liked throwing the shurikens with the shadow during death mark, but now I can't do that without living shadow being procced in mid combo. :(

I'm one of the few people who doesn't like to build botrk on Zed. It feels weird to build it considering that it's supposed to be his skills that deal the most damage and not him auto attacking. Has it become almost mandatory for him to build BotRK?

There are quite a number of ways to counter Zed's ulti. Other item actives, support champions, tanky champions, bruisers with hard CC, stop him from doing damage in his combo to mitigate most of the damage, etc. Why don't people complain more about a Talon assassination where he blinks to you from out of nowhere, silences and brutally murders you before you can even fight back? There's the difference between being fast when killing and not even being able to even use an escape when as assassin shows up.