Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-110.137.225.172-20121115141325/@comment-99.237.78.15-20121116195233

Okay, allow me to some up some of his strong points.

In laning phase, he's got the energy system, which is always good. His living shadow buffs his strong poke and makes it easier to land, farm and harass with. Going top means harassing and farming without being at risk. Landing shadow shurikens ensures free damage over a period of time, and can be combo'd with shadow slash. It's also easy to jump in for a kill from that position too. Ganks are also easier to escape from since he's got the shadow as noted before. Also, he build up AD really fast due to his living shadow and laning phase. Those who try to engage him have to worry about the living shadow combo and his ult, which helps to avoid skill shots, ults and targetted skills.

This is especially useful in mid, where the target is alot squishier. Anyone who comes to close to Zed's "range" gets harassed either by shadow slash or razor shuriken. Ganks and his ult makes sticking to a target easier too, with his low CD shadow slash. Farming is a breeze with this guy due to his passive.

For mid game, it's easy to build crap tons of AD and deal alot of burst damage with him. During team fights, his role is alot like Kat's in that he cleans up whoever is weakened or is squishy and vulnerable. His skills in conjunction with his shadows ensures tons of damage to the enemy team and provides aoe slows in unorthodox places. He's got escape options either for himself or for covering up entries for enemies with damage and slows.

For late game, building him durably means he can last a lot longer in most fights than other assassin's and his living shadow ensures he doesn't fall behind in damage (over 200 - 300 AD isn't falling behind right?). His job at that point is to take the AD carry by surprise, burst him down and never let him get you, which isn't so hard. This is during when the ults and CC from the tanks and mages are firing at your other team mates and not at you of course. From there, he concentrates on bursting whoever is left over and blah, blah, blah.

Zed's got his own uses, but people can't just say that he's an inferior talon when they do nothing similar to one another. Zed's got his early game and passive AD to pull him through, while Talon goes in to target anyone vulnerable and kills without retaliation. Don't put him down just yet...

He's versatile and mobile.