Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-7663262-20130407171952/@comment-5112222-20130409192626

You kinda answered why he isn't though, the clone trickster thing is already done by LeBlanc and Shaco, LeBlanc for Escape or quick confusion, Shaco for Diversion or Damage. Also Zed has 2 shadows, if they could move and attack, they'd either not be controllable or only copy you. Though I do understand what you're going at, but the recast ability he currently has gives him a higher skill cap, go on. think about this.

-Zed uses W and commands it to attack the enemy champ, they get hurt Zed doesn't and he gets full energy soon after, and can do it again quicker than shaco, level 6 Zed ulti's to you and uses W,and commands all 3, his DPS has more than doubled and he can go spam happy with his Q and E, Late game horrorfest, only drawback the lack of position switching since you have to command shadows using the spell recast to keep up the trickster theme of which one is the real one with both up.

Basicly same reason you can't control all of Yorick's Ghouls mixed with the annoyingness of Decoy and Hallucination. They'd have to deal no damage with AAs and moving them around would take away the swap you can do, or he'd need far shittier ratios.

tl;dr Zed would lose skillcap and become a horrible shitfest that Riot also avoided with Yorick's ghouls, cept with no mana problems.