Zed (Legends of Runeterra)

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Zed
Region	Ionia
Type	Champion
Cost	3 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Quick Attack
Description	Attack: Summon an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats.
Level Up	I've seen myself or copies of 3 Living Shadow strike the enemy Nexus a total of two times.
3 2
Collecting & Crafting
This card is collectible, and costs 3000 or 1
Flavour
"Balance is a fool's master. The shadows have shown me true power."
Expansion	Set 1 - Foundations
Rarity	Champion
ID	01IO009
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary HD League Displays

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Zed
Region	Ionia
Type	Champion
Cost	3 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Quick Attack
Description	Attack: Summon an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats, transferable keywords, and text.
4 3
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"Few men think to look back at their shadow. It is their last mistake."
Expansion	Set 1 - Foundations
ID	01IO009T2
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary HD

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Zed's Shadowshift
Region	Ionia
Type	Champion Spell
Cost	2 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Fast
Description	Recall an ally to summon a 3 Living Shadow in its place. Create a 3Zed in your deck.
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
Do you face the enemy that you believe you see? Or is it a trick of the shadows?
Expansion	Set 1 - Foundations
ID	01IO009T3
Artist	Max Grecke
Artwork	Primary

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Zed
Region	Ionia
Type	Champion
Cost	3 Mana
Card text
Description	Attack: Create an attacking 3Living Shadow with my stats.
Level Up	My shadows and I have struck the enemy Nexus twice.
3 2
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"Balance is a fool's master. The shadows have shown me true power."
Expansion	Challenge
ID	00IO011
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary

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Zed
Region	Ionia
Type	Champion
Cost	3 Mana
Card text
Description	Attack: Create an attacking 3Living Shadow with my stats, transferable keywords, and additional text.
4 3
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"Fools cling to the lie of balance. There is only perfection or death."
Expansion	Challenge
ID	00IO011T1
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary

Skins

• Original
• Dark Star

Original Zed: Base Skin

1 / 15-Oct-2019

Level 1

"Balance is a fool's master. The shadows have shown me true power."

Level 2

"Few men think to look back at their shadow. It is their last mistake."

Zed's Shadowshift

Do you face the enemy that you believe you see? Or is it a trick of the shadows?

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Dark Star Zed: Epic Skin

Gain true power by giving yourself up to nothingness.

Features:

• 4 new artworks
• New voice filter
• New level-up animation

This skin is available for purchase.

1290 / 19-May-2021

Level 1

"Smother the light. The light of their suns and stars, the light in their very eyes... And then... eternal shadow."

Level 2

"Pledge to oblivion, and give yourself to the cold edge of my blade."

Zed's Shadowshift

"Return to nothingness." - Zed

Living Shadow

"Created from nothing to diminish life to nothing."

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Notes

• Any 3 Living Shadow will progress Zed's level up condition, however other Zeds will not progress another Zed's level up condition.

Trivia

• He also appeared in the artwork of:
  • 5 Shadows of the Past
  • 2 Shadowshift
• 2 Zed's Shadowshift is based on Zed's Shadow Swap.

Quotes

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3Dark Star Zed features a voice filter on top of the lines of 3Original Zed.

Summoned

• ▶️   ▶️   "Pledge yourself to the shadows."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Without a sound."
• ▶️   ▶️   "I am the blade in the darkness."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Do not fear the shrouded path."

Enemy 4Jhin present

• ▶️   Zed: "I am the blade in the darkness."
  • ▶️   Jhin: "You belong in the dark. No audience could love you."
• ▶️   Zed: "Without a sound."
  • ▶️   Jhin: "That is why it's called background work."

Enemy 4Shen present

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "We meet again... old friend."
  • ▶️   Shen: "We're not the men we once were."
• ▶️   Shen: "You'll never destroy the Kinkou."
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: *chuckles* "Your father believed the same."
• ▶️   Shen: "You're no match for me, Zed!"
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "You're right. I've far surpassed you!"

Enemy 6Darius present

• ▶️   Darius: "Afraid to show your face?"
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Ha, I'd be more worried about keeping yours."

Allied 3Irelia present

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Pledge yourself to the shadows."
  • ▶️   Irelia: "Noxian tyranny has already forged our bond."

Allied 5Karma present

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "The shadows have enlightened me."
  • ▶️   Karma: "Someday, you'll learn the true meaning of that word."

Enemy 3Katarina present

• ▶️   Katarina: "He's mine!"
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "First you must find me."
• ▶️   Katarina: "I've killed hundreds like you."
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "There is no one like me."

Allied 1Kennen present

• ▶️   Zed: "We meet again... old friend."
  • ▶️   Kennen: "It's not too late for you, the Kinkou needs Usan back."

Enemy 1Kennen present

• ▶️   Zed: "The shadows have enlightened me."
  • ▶️   Kennen: "Uh, that's not the way shadows work."
• ▶️   Zed: "Do not fear the shrouded path."
  • ▶️   Kennen: "Who fears a shroud? Hah! That's a scarf."

Allied 3Lulu present

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Do not fear the shrouded path."
  • ▶️   Lulu: "Or the path with the talking lilies. Mm-hmm."

Enemy 3Lulu present

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Without a sound."
  • ▶️   Lulu: "We can all hear you, Zed! Silly scuzzlebloom."

Enemy 5Vladimir present

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Do not fear the shrouded path."
  • ▶️   Vladimir: "Shadow-etched blood. How delightful."
• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "I am the blade in the darkness."
  • ▶️   Vladimir: "The shadows aren't yours alone, Zed."

Allied 4 Ren Shadowblade present

• ▶️   Ren: "Death will bring them silence."
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Silence the unworthy."

Allied 3 Shadow Assassin present

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Do not fear the shrouded path."
  • ▶️   Shadow Assassin: "I walk your path alone."

Allied 1 Sparring Student present

• ▶️   Zed: "I am the blade in the darkness."
  • ▶️   Sparring Student: "Are you supposed to be here?"

Sees a Unit Summoned

Allied 4Shen

• ▶️   Shen: "We both want what is best for Ionia."
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "And only one of us pursues it."
• ▶️   Shen: "You should have stayed away!"
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "You cannot escape your past."

Enemy 4Shen

• ▶️   Shen: "The Kinkou watch over Ionia."
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Watch all you want. My order will act!"

Enemy 6Darius

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "I feel your fear, Noxian dog."
  • ▶️   Darius: "Ha, you're the one hiding behind a mask."

Enemy 5Karma

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Thinking, feeling, is that all you do?"
  • ▶️   Karma: "Small minds know only action without purpose."
• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "So much power, crippled by restraint."
  • ▶️   Karma: "Power is nothing without purpose."

Enemy 5Lux

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Time for this candle to flicker out."
  • ▶️   Lux: "I'll melt away your shadows!"

Allied 4Yasuo

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "The enemy of my enemy..."
  • ▶️   Yasuo: "Barely tolerates you."
• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "You'd do well in my order."
  • ▶️   Yasuo: "I'm nobody's pawn."

Enemy 4Yasuo

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "They call us murderers as though it were an insult."
  • ▶️   Yasuo: "Save it for someone who'll listen."

Allied 4 Ren Shadowblade

• ▶️   Ren: "A shadow to cut through the light!"
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "Our blades speak far louder than words."

Allied 5 Yusari

• ▶️   Yusari: "None question me!"
  • ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "I sense a darkness in you."
• ▶️   Yusari: "Master Zed will be pleased."
  • ▶️   Zed: "Look what you've become!"
• ▶️   Yusari: "My training is nearly complete!"
  • ▶️   Zed: "An apt pupil."

Allied 3 Shadow Assassin

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed: "An apt pupil."
  • ▶️   Shadow Assassin: "My life for the Order."

Allied 1 Shadow Fiend

• ▶️   ▶️   "The weak let power rule them."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Such a pity."

Level Up

• ▶️   Level Up Theme
• ▶️   ▶️   "Only the worthy survive!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Embrace the shadows!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "My skill is unrivaled!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Claim what is ours!"

Sees a Spell or Skill Resolve

Allied 6 Dawn and Dusk

• ▶️   "The shadows rise."
• ▶️   "Our numbers grow."

Allied 3 Death Mark

• ▶️   ▶️   "Follow closely, strike silently."
• ▶️   ▶️   "On my mark."

Allied 2 Shadowshift

• ▶️   ▶️   "Don't look twice."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Over here."

Allied 6 Shadow Flare

• ▶️   ▶️   "Show them our power."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Ours is the shrouded path."
• ▶️   "Shadows take you."

Attack Declared

• ▶️   ▶️   "Seize control!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "They won't suffer long."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Do not deny me!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Only the worthy survive."
• ▶️   ▶️   "They follow the wrong master."
• ▶️   ▶️   Zed laughs.

Attack Committed

Allied 3 Living Shadow is Summoned

• ▶️   ▶️   "I have many faces."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Shadows cut deep as any weapon."
• ▶️   ▶️   "We go as one."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Who needs friends, anyway?"
• ▶️   ▶️   *grumbles* "Stop following me!"

Nexus Strike effect

• ▶️   ▶️   "I am the shadow."

Block Declared

• ▶️   ▶️   "Do not disappoint me."
• ▶️   ▶️   "I am a true master."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Punish restraint."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Cut the breath from them."

Death

• ▶️   ▶️   Zed groans.
• ▶️   ▶️   "The Order..."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Into... darkness..."

Chosen

• ▶️   ▶️   "You've chosen well."

Removed from Choice

• ▶️   ▶️   "Do not deny me!"

Victory

• ▶️   ▶️   "None escape their shadow."
• ▶️   ▶️   Zed laughs.
• ▶️   ▶️   "They will all learn to fear my order."

Defeat

• ▶️   ▶️   "Fools!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Our work is not yet done."

Change Log

Zed
V1.10	Undocumented: Level Up becomes: "I've seen myself or my shadows strike the enemy Nexus twice." Old Level Up: "My shadows and I have struck the enemy Nexus twice."
V1.0	Undocumented: Text becomes: "Attack: Summon an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats." Old Text: "Attack: Create an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats."
V0.9.0	Undocumented: Description becomes: "Attack: Create an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats." (Keyword is highlighted.) Old Description: "Attack: Create an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats."
Open Beta Patch	Undocumented: Level Up becomes: "My shadows and I have struck the enemy Nexus twice." (Keyword is highlighted.) Old Level Up: "My shadows and I have struck the enemy Nexus twice."
Announce Preview Patch	Added.

Zed (Level 2)
V3.2	Undocumented: Text becomes: " Attack: Summon an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats and positive keywords." Old Text: " Attack: Summon an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats and keywords."
V1.0	Undocumented: Text becomes: "Attack: Summon an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats and keywords." Old Text: Attack: Create an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats and keywords." Flavor becomes: "Few men think to look back at their shadow. It is their last mistake." Old Flavor: "Balance is a fool's master. The shadows have shown me true power."
V0.9.0	Undocumented: Description becomes: "Attack: Create an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats and keywords." (Keyword is highlighted.) Old Description: "Attack: Create an attacking 3 Living Shadow with my stats and keywords."
Announce Preview Patch	Added.

Zed's Shadowshift
V4.1	Mana cost reduced to 2 from 3.
V1.16	Text becomes: "Recall an ally to summon a 3 Living Shadow in its place. Create a 3Zed in your deck." Old Text: "Recall an ally to summon a 3 Living Shadow in its place. Shuffle a 3Zed into your deck."
Announce Preview Patch	Added.

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