In League of Legends Wild Rift Zed is an Assassin that highly play in Mid lane. View Zed Best builds, Runes, Matchups, and more here!
Zed Build Guide
Full Build
Youmuu's Ghostblade | Duskblade of Draktharr | Ionian Boots of Lucidity |
Black Cleaver | Mortal Reminder | Guardian Angel |
Enchantment: Protobelt Enchant.
This Zed full build works well against opponents Assassin, Fighter, Marksman, and Tank.
The items provide Attack Damage, Ability Haste, Amore Penetration, and survivability last.
Build Vs Mage
Youmuu's Ghostblade | Duskblade of Draktharr | Ionian Boots of Lucidity |
Black Cleaver | Maw of Malmortius | Guardian Angel |
Playing against Mage champion in Mid lane you may need to buy Maw of Malmortius which provides magic resistance and a shield that absorbs magic damage.
Other Items Options
Here are more items that you should build on Zed base on your game situation.
Sterak's Gage | Umbral Glaive | Death's Dance |
Zed Runes
The Best Wild Rift Runes are Electrocute keystone with Brutal, Hunter - Titan, and Hunter - Genius.
Electrocute | Hitting a champion with successive attacks or abilities deals bonus adaptive damage. |
Brutal | Gain AD/AP and penetration. (Adaptive) |
Hunter - Titan | Unique champion takedowns grant max health and tenacity. |
Hunter - Genius | Unique champion takedowns grant Ability Haste. |
Summoner Spells
Flash | Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction. |
Ignite | Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 60 true damage (60-410) over 5 seconds and inflicting them with Grievous Wounds. Grievous wounds reduce healing effects by 50%. |
Zed Skill Guide
Skill Details
Contempt for the Weak | Zed's attack against enemies below 50% Health deal bonus magic damage equal to 7% of their maximum Health. (10 seconds cooldown per unique enemy. |
Razor Shuriken | Zed and his shadows throw their shurikens, each dealing 80 physical damage (80 + 100% AD) to the first enemy they hit and 48 physical damage (48 + 60% AD) to other enemies in their path. Cooldown: 5.9 Energy Cost: 70/ 65/ 60/ 55 |
Living Shadow | Passive: Zed gains 35 Energy whenever an ability strikes the same enemy twice. Energy can only be gained once per cast ability. Active: Zed's shadow dashes forward, remaining in place for 4.5 seconds. Reactivating Living Shadow will cause Zed to swap positions with his shadow. Cooldown: 19.5/ 17.6/ 15.6/ 13.7 Energy Cost: 35/ 30/ 25/ 20 |
Shadow Slash | Zed and his shadow slash, each dealing 70 physical damage (70 + 80% AD) to nearby enemies and slowing them by 25% for 1.5 seconds. Each enemies champion hit by Zed's slash reduces Living Shadow's cooldown by 2 seconds. Cooldown: 4.9/ 4.4/ 3.9/ 3.4 Energy Cost: 50 |
Death Mark | Zed becomes untargetable and dashes to target enemy champion, marking them. After 3.5 seconds, the mark triggers, dealing physical damage equal to 64 (100% AD) plus 25% of all damage dealt to the target by Zed while the mark was active. The dash leaves a shadow behind for 6 seconds. Zed can reactivate Death Mark to switch positions with this shadow. Cooldown: 87.8/ 68.3/ 48.8 |
Skill Order
Razor Shuriken | Living Shadow | Shadow Slash | Death Mark |
1 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
4 | 12 | 8 | 9 |
6 | 14 | 10 | 13 |
7 | 15 | 11 |
Skill Combo
1. Living Shadow > Shadow Slash > Razor Shuriken
2. Death Mark > Shadow Slash > Razor Shuriken
3. Death Mark > Living Shadow > Shadow Slash > Razor Shuriken
Zed Matchups
Good Against | |
Yasuo | Playing Zed against Yasuo in mid lane, you may hard to farm early game because Yasuo can clear minion wave fast. However, you will be good after getting the ultimate. Use Razor Shuriken to break Yasuo's shield. |
Twisted Fate | Zed can counter champion with low mobility and squishy health that he can one-shot Twisted Fate easily. However, in the early game, you may lose some minion because of Twisted Fate range attack longer than you. |
Ziggs | Ziggs also another champion that Zed can counter him well. Zed is a bit hard in the early game but when he gets all his skill, he will be able to get close to Ziggs and kill him. |
Hard Counters | |
Fizz | Fizz is the best pick against Zed because of his skill advantage. Fizz can disable Zed's ultimate with his Playful / Trickster that prevent Zed from dealing damage to him. |
Ahri | Ahri is also can counter Zed well with her CC skill. Ahri uses her Charm when Zed gets out from his ultimate which makes Zed can't be able to deal damage to her and also can deal damage back to him. |
Zed Pros and Cons
Pros |
1. Easy to farm in lane with passive |
2. High mobility |
3. Strong Assassin when getting level 5 |
4. Ability escape from bad situations |
5. Instantly kill squishy champions. |
Cons |
1. Has items counters (Stasis Enchant, Guardian Angel) |
2. Need to know skill combo |
3. Vulnerable to CC and good peel from enemy tanks and supports. |
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