- Hi everyone and welcome to this Zed Guide.
After hours and hours of trying to understand how Zed works I finally
hit the point of which I feel that I'm ready to share my experiences with you to make you
a better Zed player.
I hope you enjoy the video.
- In this video we'll go over a couple of things that will help you to understand Zed.
Firstly champion select, featuring Summoner Spells, runes and masteries.
Then I'll tell you which Items you should get on Zed, and in which order you should
be leveling up your skills.
After that I'll briefly tell you how Zed his skills work.
That will give you a clear understanding of Zed as a champion.
Then the more advanced part of the guide comes, where we will be looking at the ingame part
of Zed.
- If you wish to skip through to any of the parts of the video, there is a list of buttons
on the top side of the video.
Pressing these buttons will skip you to the parts listed.
- Now, Let's get started with Champion Select.
Zed is an Assassin who wants to burst his enemies down quickly.
Because of that, I use ignite and flash as Summoner Spells
on Zed.
My rune page is a fairly basic AD runepage.
It has armor penetration marks, Armor and Health seals, Magic resist
Glyphs and attack damage quintessences.
I use 21/9/0 masteries because it makes you stronger in fights.
- Here you see an overview of item build and skill order.
You can copy these for your own games since they have proven
to work for me.
- Before you start playing Zed it is important to know how his abilities work.
Let's take a quick look at what they exactly do.
- Zed his passive, Contempt for the Weak, makes zed deal extra damage on enemies with
50% hp or less.
The damage scales on percent max hp of your enemy.
This passive can only be used once every 10 seconds on the same target.\
- Zed his Q, Razor Shuriken, throws a shuriken towards a direction dealing physical damage.
The first target hit will get 100% of the damage, while all targets hit after that will
only get 60% of the damage.
When zed has a shadow active, this shadow will also
throw the shuriken.
The shadow deals only 50% of the damage on the first target, and 30% on the next targets.
- Zed his W, Living Shadow, has a passive and an active.
The passive grants zed increased bonus AD.
The active spawns a shadow on the location targeted on first press.
IF you press W for the second time, zed will swap location with the shadow.
Additionally, If a target is struck twice by a mimicked
ability, zed restores some energy.
- Zed his E, Shadow Slash, will make zed spin around with his blades.
This will deal damage to all enemies surrounding Zed and his
shadows.
Each enemy hit will reduce Living Shadow's cooldown by 2 seconds.
If his shadow hits an enemy, it will also slow the enemy for 1.5 seconds.
- Zed his ultimate, Death Mark, is the most interesting ability of them all.
Zed becomes untargetable for 0.75 seconds and dashes
Zed behind his target.
This will put a mark on the enemy's head.
This mark will trigger in 3 seconds and will deal damage based
on the % damage he dealt during the time the mark was active.
Additionally, it also spawns a shadow behind your target.
Just like Living Shadow, you can re-enable this ability
to swap locations with the shadow.
- With all that information settled and done we are ready to jump into the more advanced
part of the guide, teaching you how to actually play Zed ingame.
These are mainly tips and tricks that will help you to become a better Zed player in
the long run, and that you will have to practice.
- Starting with the Early Game, zed has the handicap of being a melee champion.
This means that farming against ranged champions can
become quite difficult, because they will harass you.
Luckily, zed doesn't have mana but he has energy.
If you get harassed too much on lane, you can farm with your Razor
Shuriken, because its energy will replenish quite fast.
- On level 2 and 3 zed can start poking the enemies by using his Living Shadow.
Because this shadow mimicks all of zed his abilities,
you can harass your enemies from a distance by using your Razor Shuriken and your Shadow
Slash.
However, there is a downside to this.
If you are pushed up and you use your living shadow for harass, you will not have any escapes
anymore.
Only use living shadow as harass when you are sure you are
safe.
- When your enemies get below 50% HP you can try for an all-in with ignite.
Targets below 50% hp will trigger your passive, giving
you a huge boost of damage on your basic attacks.
When you harass your opponent with your living shadow and your opponent gets hit
by your shadow's shadow slash, swap locations with your shadow by pressing W again.
Now you are in range to auto attack and go for
the all-in.
- To improve the poke on lane you can try to hit both of your shurikens at the same
time.
A way to do this is to throw your living shadow out, shadow slash with the shadow to
slow your opponent, move closer with your character and throw the shurikens out.
This will maximize the damage you can deal on your
targets.
- Then once you have your ultimate things will get interesting.
Still try to keep poking your enemies below 50% hp before going in,
and then go for your ultimate.
If they flash away immideatly, use your living shadow to gap close and try to deal as much
damage as you can while the mark is active.
This is why you always start your engage with your ultimate.
If you know the enemy dies from the death mark, use your R again to swap locations
of the shadow in the starting location.
- It is even better to engage with your ultimate if you can dodge an ability with it first.
Death Mark makes you untargetable for 0.75 seconds, meaning that you can avoid crucial
enemy abilities to use it on its most effective way possible.
- As zed you should always try to quickly burst down the enemy squishies on the team.
Target the enemy AD carry or the midlaner to
make sure you're able to quickly burst your opponents down.
Use all of your active items while death mark is active and return
to your ultimate shadow to get back in safety for effective assassinations.
- Because zed is so strong in the 1v1, splitpushing definitely works late game.
In team fights he usually gets focussed, exhausted and so on, but when you're splitpushing they
actually can't counter you that hard.
If someone shows up in the lane, you should try
to kill him.
You should be the better 1v1 champion if you play it correctly.
Make sure the pressure is there for the enemy team.
- So to quickly sum it up: use your shadow's mimicked abilities to poke your enemies on
lane.
If they are below 50% hp, all-in them.
When you ult, try to dodge a crucial ability and to use your living shadow as well to get
damage out of 2 shadows.
Use all your active items while the mark is active.
Re-enable your ultimate when you know you will pop them and split push late game for
maximum efficency.
- I want to thank you all for watching this Zed Guide.
Please leave a like if you've learned something from it and comment below
which champion you want to learn next.
Good luck with Zed and I hope to see you all next time!