Champion Select[]
- Pick
- Ban
- ▶️ "Do not deny me."
Movement[]
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Without a sound."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No technique is forbidden."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Brave the shadows, find the truth."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Do not fear the shrouded path."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Balance is a fool's master."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Secrets kept are weapons wasted."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The shadows have enlightened me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Balance is weakness."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The truth lies in darkness."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Tradition is the corpse of wisdom."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "What I have done... cannot be undone."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with
Taunt[]
- Zed engages in a fight with his shadow.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Embrace the shadow... or die in darkness!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The merest shade of me... is enough to defeat you!"
Joke[]
- Zed plays 'rock, paper, scissors' with his shadow. If he wins, his shadow bows and disappears. If he loses, he kills his shadow.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ (Victory) Zed grunts. "Forbidden shadow wins."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ (Defeat) Zed grunts, then snarls.
Laugh[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed laughs pompously.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed laughs pompously.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed laughs pompously.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed laughs pompously.
Attacking[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 25% chance
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Only the worthy will survive."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I am the blade in the darkness."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Cut the last breath from them."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The shadow is within."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Punish restraint."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Do not deny me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "They follow the wrong master."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "None escape their shadow."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Ignorance is fatal."
Ability Casting[]
Using []
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts in effort.
Using []
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed exhales intensely.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed exhales intensely.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed exhales intensely.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed exhales intensely.
Using []
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed grunts, straining.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed grunts, straining.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed grunts, straining.
Using []
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts loudly in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts loudly in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts loudly in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed shouts loudly in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed chuckles slyly.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed chuckles slyly.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed chuckles slyly.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Zed chuckles slyly.
Death[]
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ "We are life, perfected."
- ▶️ "What we have seen... what we have done... you are all part of it."
- ▶️ "We will cure the galaxy of conflict. We will cure the galaxy of ignorance."
- ▶️ "We once bowed before the Templars. Now, we are the truth they deny."
- First Move with Ally Odyssey
- ▶️ "Someone here likes Ora. Shall we demonstrate its power?"
- First Move with Enemy Odyssey
- ▶️ "Our enemy came all this way to face us? And they say we try too hard."
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Simple life forms surround us."
- ▶️ "The unknown is here."
- ▶️ "We will show the universe its true potential."
- ▶️ "Tradition pacifies the weak."
- ▶️ "The Templars restrain us no more."
- ▶️ "Ora... the essence of all things."
- ▶️ "Some consider us evil... How naive they must be."
- ▶️ "Let us remind the universe what we are."
- ▶️ "Remorse is futile."
- ▶️ "If they want Ora... we will give it."
- ▶️ "Our blades crave battle."
- ▶️ "No more sacred orders. No more limitations."
- ▶️ "Harmony blooms once the weak wither away."
- ▶️ "Listen to the cosmos. Hear the truth."
- ▶️ "The galaxy will know its destiny."
- ▶️ "We. Are. Enlightened."
- ▶️ "Beyond the reaches of space, we evolve."
- ▶️ "Only fools cling to morals."
- ▶️ "We are the gift this galaxy needs."
- ▶️ "Behold! The pinnacle of creation."
- ▶️ "We are everywhere, all at once."
- ▶️ "A new genesis approaches."
- ▶️ "Only time can judge us."
- ▶️ "We walk the path to eternity."
- ▶️ "The Templars promise salvation. They lie."
- ▶️ "We let the monster out."
- ▶️ "We gaze upon the stars and see no limits."
- ▶️ "We go where others dare not."
Long Move[]
- 15 seconds cooldown, 2000 units
- ▶️ "The weak crave the illusion of balance. The worthy enforce true harmony."
- ▶️ "Someone must destroy the weak. Let it be us."
- ▶️ "So many try to hide their worst fears. And yet, we walk free."
- ▶️ "The galaxy... a vast expanse infested by the weak."
- ▶️ "How we long for something simpler. Harmony..."
- ▶️ "Templars, Demaxians, the Syndicate, all blind fools."
- ▶️ "There is only triumph and we will claim it all."
- ▶️ "They see us as a living weapon. We are more than that. We are life transcended!"
- ▶️ "These creatures waste their Ora. Let us pluck it out!"
- ▶️ "We grow ever stronger under the living stars."
- ▶️ "Acquire forbidden power. Defy sacred doctrine. This is just the beginning."
- ▶️ "The Demaxians conquer planets. We enlighten galaxies."
- ▶️ "The Templars say our deeds are extreme. They are right."
- ▶️ "Do not challenge us! We extend beyond your understanding."
- ▶️ "Humanity achieves so little. Grant them Ora and still they wallow in mediocrity."
- ▶️ "Before us, there was nothing. Before nothing, there were monsters."
- ▶️ "When life grows unchecked, cleansing blades are needed."
- ▶️ "They mistake evolution for corruption. That is why they will fall."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with a Cosmic
- ▶️ "You intend to destroy us. A grave mistake."
- ▶️ "This pain urges us to kill you, though we do not know why."
- ▶️ Alien noises
- First Encounter with a Dark Star
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Worthy spirit, Jinx. But it cannot save you... from us."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "In another life, Kayn, you might have been a half-decent pupil."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Malphite, we heard you were hard to kill. Challenge accepted."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Sona, we both know the Templars lie. Join us!"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Captain Yasuo. This is your crew? Your brother would be so disappointed..."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Tell us, Ziggs, do space rats go to Heaven?"
Taunt[]
- Zed sprouts blades from his body threateningly.
- ▶️ "We offer you a choice: Die now, or die later."
- ▶️ "You are dust. We are perfection."
- ▶️ "You will love the way you die. We guarantee it."
- Taunt Response
- ▶️ "We pray you fight better than you talk."
Joke[]
- Zed impales an insect with his blades and cooks it, while his shadow waits eagerly to eat it.
- ▶️ "Cooking is like killing. It takes skill, and ours is unmatched."
- ▶️ "Have you come to dine with us? Oh, wait... of course. You are us."
- ▶️ "Look at us! Are we not the perfect reflection of your juvenile fantasies?"
- Joke Response
- ▶️ "Your jokes. They lack humor."
Dance[]
- ▶️ Zed brings out a boombox.
Laugh[]
- ▶️ Zed laughs menacingly and confidently.
- ▶️ Zed laughs menacingly and confidently.
- ▶️ Zed laughs menacingly and confidently.
- ▶️ Zed laughs menacingly and confidently.
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Witness our superior form."
- ▶️ "Silence your thoughts."
- ▶️ "The cosmos demands better."
- ▶️ "We bring extinction."
- ▶️ "You do not deserve life."
- ▶️ "All will fear us."
- ▶️ "Eradicate the weak."
- ▶️ "You will not deny us."
- ▶️ "Disharmony..."
- ▶️ "None shall escape."
- ▶️ "Your Ora needs release."
- ▶️ "No room for the weak."
- ▶️ "Pathetic life form."
- ▶️ "You coward."
- ▶️ "Your time is over."
- ▶️ "Cut to pieces."
- ▶️ "Weak!"
- ▶️ "Sever."
- ▶️ "Let's end your existence."
- ▶️ "Lowly creature."
- ▶️ "Craven fool!"
- ▶️ "Your body will break."
- ▶️ "All life ends."
- ▶️ "Our blades cry out."
- ▶️ "How frail you are!"
- ▶️ "Have the decency to die."
- ▶️ "You earned oblivion."
- ▶️ "Pathetic scum."
- ▶️ "No mercy."
- Attacking
- ▶️ "That arm looks heavy, Jinx. Let's cut it off."
- Attacking
- ▶️ "Kayn! Our first and final lesson begins."
- Attacking
- ▶️ "Blades beat fists, Malphite."
- Attacking
- ▶️ "Sona, you disappoint us!"
- Attacking
- ▶️ "Are you worthy of that title, 'captain'?"
- Attacking
- ▶️ "Ready to be disgraced again, Ziggs?"
Ability Casting[]
Using []
- 50% chance
Using []
- 50% chance
- ▶️ "Perfection."
- ▶️ "Divide."
- ▶️ "Behold."
- ▶️ "Flawless."
- ▶️ "One more."
- ▶️ "Replicate."
- ▶️ Alien noises
- ▶️ Alien noises
- ▶️ Alien noises
- 50% chance
Using []
- 50% chance
Using []
- ▶️ "We. Are. Zed."
- ▶️ "It's over."
- ▶️ "You're already dead."
- ▶️ Zed laughs menacingly and confidently.
- ▶️ Zed laughs menacingly and confidently.
Kills and Objectives[]
- Killing a Champion
- ▶️ "So fragile. So weak."
- ▶️ "Even your best falls short."
- ▶️ "Life, at a price."
- ▶️ "Embrace your destiny."
- ▶️ "Survival of the fittest."
- ▶️ "What was that filth?"
- ▶️ "Is your entire species this brittle?"
- ▶️ "Are you humbled? You should be."
- Killing
- ▶️ "We almost miss your voice, Jinx. It had a certain... loud quality."
- Killing
- ▶️ "Not good enough, Kayn."
- Killing
- ▶️ "Not even close, Malphite."
- Killing
- ▶️ "We thought you knew better, Sona."
- Killing
- ▶️ "No cure for foolish captains."
- Killing
- ▶️ "Look at the skill. Look at the moves. Zed, what was that!?"
- Killing
- ▶️ "Confirmed: space rats do not go to Heaven."
- Scoring a Pentakill
- ▶️ "We are life. We are evolution! We. Are. Zed."
- ▶️ "One by one they all fall down."
- ▶️ "Consider this our gift."
[]
- 75% chance, 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "A moment of peace... before our victory."
- ▶️ "You all may live... until we return."
- ▶️ "We go... to collect untold power."
Death[]
- ▶️ "The Galaxy still needs us..."
- ▶️ "Ora lasts forever..."
- ▶️ Zed grunts in pain.
- ▶️ Zed grunts in pain.
- ▶️ Zed grunts in pain.
- Respawn
- 75% chance
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ "I'm part of a very exclusive club. But don't worry. Soon enough you'll all be members too.
- ▶️ "I'm more than a man in a fancy suit."
- ▶️ "I look good, I feel... good." Zed chuckles menacingly.
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Everyone sees the suit. No one sees what's coming."
- ▶️ "I own this town, inside and out."
- ▶️ "True power deserves a look to match."
- ▶️ "Everybody drank the vitae."
- ▶️ "The shadows demand chaos. They will have it."
- ▶️ "The brighter the town, the darker its shadows."
- ▶️ "I am the shadow at your back, the dark within your mind."
- ▶️ "My... 'investors' are watching closely."
- ▶️ "I found my place in this world and the next."
- ▶️ "Zed has never looked better."
- ▶️ "Dressed to the nines."
- ▶️ "Truth hidden is truth wasted."
- ▶️ "The vitae has... enlightened me."
- ▶️ "I cast a long shadow from the high life."
- ▶️ "What I have done is just the beginning."
- ▶️ "Brave the beyond and it will reward you."
- ▶️ "I'm a well-respected man."
- ▶️ "All will gutter into darkness."
- ▶️ "My shadows are much more than tricks of the light."
- ▶️ "The dark is intoxicating."
- ▶️ "This power is so... tantalizing."
- ▶️ "Why fight, when the only outcome is Zed?"
- ▶️ "In the business of killing, I'm always number one."
- ▶️ "Do not fear what you cannot understand."
- ▶️ "Style and substance."
Long Move[]
- 15 seconds cooldown, 2000 units
- ▶️ "Crime City is a template for everything to come."
- ▶️ "If the world must be reborn, might as well dress for the occasion."
- ▶️ "You know what they say: the suit makes the man, the man becomes something more."
- ▶️ "Gaze beyond the glitz and glamor, and see what's writhing underneath."
- ▶️ "The sun never sets. The lights never dim. And the shadows bide their time."
- ▶️ "I've struck a lot of deals, but this one was too good to pass up."
- ▶️ "The dark is transforming us into what we were always meant to be."
- ▶️ "We all know what's coming. I've simply... secured my future."
- ▶️ "Dark, pure, untainted."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with Debonair
- ▶️ "Time for a night on the town, wouldn't you say?"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Brand... your head is on fire."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Ah, our illustrious high-roller Draven. Here to make a bad bet?"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Who are you, LeBlanc? Or should I say, what are you?"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "That shield won't block out their truth, Leona, but you know that."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "You knew what was in the vitae... didn't you, Malz?"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Rare for you to leave your penthouse, Yi. Something wrong?"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "We're not hiring another ventriloquist. Get lost, kid."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "I told you, we aren't hiring another ninja act."
Taunt[]
- Zed plants his cane in front of him and holds it with both hands while posing. His shadow appears and floats above him.
- ▶️ Zed laughs derisively. "You have no idea how dead you're about to be."
- Taunt Response
- ▶️ "Instead of running away, you're coming closer?"
Joke[]
- Zed pulls a vial of vitae out of his pocket and pretends to propose a toast. After failing to drink it through his helmet, he pours it on the ground in disappointment.
- ▶️ "Elder-gods crazy for a sharp-dressed Zed."
- Joke Response
- ▶️ "Oh? Funny."
Laugh[]
- ▶️ Zed laughs pompously.
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 30% chance
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "They are watching us."
- ▶️ "You could never be me."
- ▶️ "My patrons wish to know you."
- ▶️ "A glimpse into forever."
- ▶️ "This is your reward."
- ▶️ "Looking for me?"
- ▶️ "Let's paint the town black."
- ▶️ "Time to make a point."
- ▶️ "This truth comes at a price."
- ▶️ "Eternity is closing in."
- ▶️ "More than you bargained for!"
- ▶️ "Fear the living shadows!"
- ▶️ "Somebody stop me."
- ▶️ "You have earned the truth."
- ▶️ "The House always wins."
- ▶️ "See the power of vitae."
- ▶️ "Now for the grand reveal."
- ▶️ "Allow me to demonstrate."
- ▶️ "If you insist."
- ▶️ "A cut above."
- ▶️ "A taste of the high life."
- ▶️ "Don't get blood on the suit."
- ▶️ "You've drawn my attention."
- ▶️ "I'll end this with style."
- ▶️ Zed laughs.
- ▶️ Zed laughs.
Ability Casting[]
Using []
- 50% chance
- ▶️ "Silence!"
- ▶️ "Coward!"
- ▶️ "Die!"
- ▶️ "Witness!"
- ▶️ "Behold!"
- ▶️ "Perish!"
- ▶️ Zed strains, shouting.
- ▶️ Zed strains, shouting.
Using []
- 50% chance
- ▶️ "Over here!"
- ▶️ "Foolish!"
- ▶️ "Too late!"
- ▶️ "So easy!"
- ▶️ "Try again!"
- ▶️ "Here I am."
- ▶️ "Too slow!"
Using []
- 50% chance
- ▶️ Zed shouts in great effort.
- ▶️ Zed shouts in great effort.
- ▶️ Zed shouts in great effort.
- ▶️ Zed shouts in great effort.
Using []
- ▶️ "Behold, true darkness!"
- ▶️ "No more games!"
- ▶️ "The truth before the end."
- ▶️ Zed laughs maniacally.
- ▶️ Zed laughs maniacally.
- ▶️ Zed laughs maniacally.
Kills and Objectives[]
- Killing a Champion
- ▶️ "I am beyond you, and always have been."
- ▶️ "I'm done with you, though my patrons are not."
- ▶️ "Don't challenge your betters."
- ▶️ "Surprised? You wouldn't be the first."
- ▶️ "I destroyed you, and looked fantastic doing it."
- ▶️ "A great change is coming. No one will stand in its way."
- ▶️ "You could never compare."
- ▶️ "Jumping at shadows?"
- ▶️ "That look of realization, I love to see it."
- ▶️ "Want to know a secret? They're all me."
- Killing Crime City Nightmare
- ▶️ "Your next vitae shipment just doubled, and I want them... for free."
- Killing Debonair
- ▶️ "Stay out of my town, deadbeat."
- Killing
- ▶️ "You burned my jacket, Brand. Expect a bill."
- Killing
- ▶️ "A lesson, Draven: don't bet more than you've got."
- Killing
- ▶️ "You may be infinite, but I'm the one with the power here."
- Killing
- ▶️ "So long, Leona. Now no one is left to stop the change."
- Killing
- ▶️ "You put the vitae in my hand, Malz. You let the old ones in."
- Killing
- ▶️ "It's too late, Yi. Nox Vegas belongs to the dark."
- Scoring a Pentakill
- ▶️ "The darkness never looked better!"
[]
- 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Power comes at a price. One I found quite agreeable."
- ▶️ "Behind every successful man... is something worse."
- ▶️ "They never like my outfit!" Zed laughs sarcastically.
- ▶️ "Tailoring's a little tight..." Zed chuckles sarcastically.
Death[]
- ▶️ "They're in the... vitae..."
- ▶️ Zed shouts in pain and exhales.
- ▶️ Zed shouts in pain and exhales.
- ▶️ Zed shouts in pain and exhales.
- Respawn
Trivia[]
- ▶️ "Forbidden shadow wins" references Mortal Kombat.
- ▶️ "What I have done... cannot be undone" references Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
- Zed shares quotes with:
- ▶️ "Before us, there was nothing. Before nothing, there were monsters." quotes The Lich from Adventure Time.[1]
- ▶️ "You're already dead." references Kenshirō from Fist of the North Star.
- ▶️ "No cure for ." references ▶️ "No cure for fools."
- ▶️ "Look at the skills, look at the moves. Zed, what was that?" quotes the casting of the famous duel between Faker and Ryu, who were both playing Zed, at the HOT6iX 2013 Summer Finals.
- Some of Debonair Zed's quotes resemble his base voicelines. For example:
- ▶️ "Truth hidden is truth wasted." resembles ▶️ "Secrets kept are weapons wasted."
- ▶️ "The vitae has... enlightened me." resembles ▶️ "The shadows have enlightened me."
- ▶️ "What I have done is just the beginning." resembles ▶️ "What I have done... cannot be undone."
- ▶️ "Brave the beyond and it will reward you." resembles ▶️ "Brave the shadows, find the truth."
- ▶️ "Instead of running away, you're coming closer?" references a now meme-status line from the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ("Oh? You're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming right to me?")