Iconic, Broken, Unplayable: The Fall of Zed 

“Alright guys how can we put faker’s zed outplay in a new video this time?”

Zed was already struggling back then. His fate was sealed when stopwatch can be built by literally everyone.

Riot: Nerf zed, keep him weak Also riot: *Adds Briar*

I hate facing zed but he lost so many things that the current version of him is just shadow of himself

Off Meta is always good for a game. No matter how many people wish to win effortlessly, there will always be value in someone who know the true thrill and virtue of needing to reload in the middle of battle. Revolver Ocelot

Ryu.. awh shit here we go again

The instant Ryu clip. They just can’t stop posting “FAKER WHAT WAS THAT!!”

Everytime i hear his iconic voice line "The unseen blade is the deadliest" is still giving me chills

Such a great video, very detailed and well-made. Zed, Yasuo and even Talon are the champs that get you into League in the first place. Because playing these champs is goddamn Gaming.

That NIP Bjerg scene at the end was nostalgic AF. Thank you for this video

Can't believe they made another entire video about Zed without including a single Onzed play

12:05 still one of LLStylendo's greatest plays. The target focus to the switch onto kataruna for the ignite to going back to kaisa for the q death mark proc. Goddamn

I think people have extra nostalgia for him cuz he was THE 1v9 champ back when it was LITERALLY possible to win a game solo

Remember when his shadow has a scaling AD passive? yeah good times it was

What's amazing is... I very clearly remember when Zed was brand new. For some reason, "older" champions like Zed never feel old to me if they weren't new after the first two years or so I was playing. For the record, when he was new, Zed was a straight up menace.

I remember when the masteries were updated and thunderllord was added. Everyone said play fervor on Zed, and to this day I had no idea why. At level 3 I could burst people for 600 damage with the w, e, q, w, auto+passive combo. It felt so good and while it very obviously needed nerfed, I loved it. You will always carry a special place in my heart, Zed, but I don't think I'll ever really get to play you again.

This champ hasn't been picked in pro for so long, i think even twitch chat forgot the copypasta of "Zed or Bed"

honestly as fun as zed is, you have to do infinitely more work to do damage and actually be able to win games, it sort of feels like unless you are 10/0 you barely do any damage with triple shurikens. It sucks that hitting 3 skillshots usually does less than most other champions point and click abilities. The moment zed actually starts to feel good he gets swiftly nerfed in the next patch.

That play still gives me goosebumps to this day

Nice fighting street cabinet in thr background

as someone who's been playing zed since its release, managed to hit rank 1 with him back in 2018, I can be completely honest with you and say zed is no longer able to 1v9 anymore. he completely fell with and lost the ability to win vs most adc's now days, if you're unable to 1v1 and adc while being 3 levels ahead being 5/0 then what am I supposed to do vs fed assassin junglers or tank top laners? what made things worse now is the fact that you cannot build last whisper and black cleaver combined anymore. you're only allowed to pick one. the only way possible for you to win with that champ is to play vs 5 squishies otherwise goodluck time to find a new main.

first ... the LL Styelish coming hot

These old clips make me sad in a way.

Wait until you guys look at LeBlanc

Genuinely happy they got a prrrrrrrrrrrrrrr play in there

Shen with chain vest - come at me bro

lets go LL Stylish referenced in the score

I just can't. No matter how many time I have seen that clip, Ryu's face still cracks me up like no other LMAO

I want some reference to August and Riot's opinion on Zed to pop up in Arcane. "The god's have taken my power. The god's FEAR my power."

Zed won't be played in pro play ever again unless hes META, zed has too much counterplay, hes not consistant, horrible laning phase

6:40 magic of blue buff

Next title. Nerfed, Reworked many times : Ryze

9:35 I feel this so hard xD But to be fair, there are more champs where it feels like this. I just say Briar. The only thing she does after hitting R is 1 Q.

The current state of Zed is the perfect illustration of League's downfall Riot wants the game to be fun no matter how bad you play, that's why lane kingdom and snowball potential are decreased more and more to the benefit of scaling and teamfight When I started League, having to play vs a Zed was very hard, at lvl 6 it was almost a miracle to keep-up in lane AND survive Now if the Zed player doesn't have 5 times the average lobby skill he can't do anything

I will never, ever let Riot live down "Zed must be kept intentionally weak because he is frustrating." You know what I hear infinitely more complaints about being frustrating? Tanks that can 1 shot people while having 4k HP. Control mages that don't need to interact with you in a meaningful way to damage you. You know what I don't hear complaints about frustrations with? An AD melee assassin who can only break even in trades every 20 seconds with an ultimate that only kills if he can land 3 separate skillshots perfectly. If we are balancing around frustration, then I would like to see Hullbreaker and other items enabling inting "strategies" removed from the game entirely.

Any list for used music?

0:16 - 0:19 I wouldn't know he's perma banned when I play mid 🤷🏻‍♀️

Maybe in pro play he is never picked anymore, but he was S tier for large parts of season 13

Basically League's Jett

I do kinda miss the blind pick overtime rules

Still my fav. Even i quit playing lol,the 1st hero i played in the lol

I will be wrong because i dont have means to research right now, mut i remember his ult be like 90% his AD or something, but around season 5~6 riot released draktar, with had basically zed ult in the item, broken you may think, so just to be shure, riot removed 40~60% of zed Ad ult in the itens debut as a counter measure After draktar was reworkd, zed never see his ad back again

As Zed main i feel absolutely devastating how they nerfed our laning phase. Watching azirs,oris and ryzes turbo shove us in and poke under turret is no fun and just to know even tho they are bullying you in lane they will outscale you as well. Especially when i remember times those scaling champs were afraid of leaving their turret when playing vs zed.

Is this a reupload? I swear I watched a video on Zed with all the same clips like a month ago. Or was that another channel? Edit: Checked. Yeah they have another video called "The Truth about Zed". Which is pretty much the exact same video lol.

The biggest problem was the extrem amount of AH that was in the game combined with the reset mechanic on his W

"Zed become week and no one picking him" Zed OTP: Nuh uh

Top- K'Sante, Rumble, Aatrox, Udyr. Jungle - Xin, Maokai, Vi, Rell. Mid - Azir, Orianna, Corki, Neeko. Bot - Varus, Lucian, Aphelios, Kalista. Support - Milio, Nautilus, Rakan, Renata. It's pretty much every game or close to it.. The pro play meta is a boring snooze fest compositionally.

I kinda like the current state of Zed in this season after some buffs. He isn't broken but if you can play him you can dominate again.

I don't know anything about league but I am still here to comment

Zed has been my perma-ban for literally years. I just hate playing (and especially laning) against him, because of how frustrating he is. Because of that, I understand where August is coming from when he says what he says about him. My perma-ban switched to Hwei now, though. That champ can go rot, it feels like I'm having to juke and sidestep 3 different champs when I'm against that guy, and my brain just cannot keep up

10:57 made me recoil in disgust holy shit. Whole community asking for ksante to be nerfed from low elo to pro players and they gave him a slap on the wrist

they just had to keep making the game easier thats why bruisers are meta these days. Can't expect minecraft kids to have skill when they are used to a game that only uses as many pixels as they are old.

That PŔRRRRRRRRRRRRRAHHHHH is how exciting Zed players are to watch. There is just some high class elegance to Zed skills and plays but I can understand the feeling of facing a skilled Zed in late game. Its just hell for anyone not a tank. Even a tank will go down 1v1 with him. I still think tanks are the most broken ass thing though like fqing tanks like Ksante can 1v5 and kill a whole thing.

just return his W passive percentage bonus ad i remember it started from 5% to 25% and increase his Q dmg with 15 dmg

I main Zed and it pains me the black clever ravenous hydra is over but to be honest i hate playing agaisnt him

if they get zed back to the way he quite used to, like a playable character again, I would definitely get back in playing league

I was playing old aatrox back in season 5-6. Every assasin back then, could just kill me easily when I didn 't have my passive. When back then you bought +70 dmg for example, you dealt +70 dmg to your opponent. After lethality came out in 2017, game already started to show how bad was about to become. Then came stucking runes, scaling abilities with literally everything (ap, ad armor etc.), crazy cooldowns, more dragons etc. Zed was very good at the old concept, of constantly fighting your lane 1vs1. If you were good player, you could easily have 30-40 kills games. Now the game is too predictable, and skills are irrelevant. It is more about dicision making. You already know from champ select if you win or lose trades. When league was fun, even counter match ups fights were ending up with one auto attack difference to death. I was silver back then and it was very common, to lose games because some opponents were really good and dominated. Now I am emerald, and I haven 't lost even one match because someone was good. Always because someone is boosted or wintrading. It took me 2 years of playing the game, in order to start playing ranked games, because of that concept of 1vs1. No one wanted to lose in lane while playing ranked. Now that it is irrelevant, the community has become way way worse, with way worse players and ranked expirience. Silver of 2016 equals at least diamond of today. Riot should fix this problem asap. Make game balanced, reward skilled players, limit jg affect especially in top lane. Some simple steps.And also make it illegal to sell boosted accounts. There are whole websites, and you do nothing to face this problem.

The score finding ways how to put that iconic faker play in a video the nth time

My friend laterally stopped playing LoL after those massive nerfs

Great visual design + simple abiliies of their own, but combined together offer infinite skill expression = recipe for a one of the most popular champ in the game. And i agree with the nerfs, facing great Zed player has basically no counterplay, if he is strong, even basic Zed player is very deadly. This is the type of a champ that needs to be balanced by a skill of the player playing him and this even fits his lore as a grandmaster of shadowclan.

Remember when we used to kill the jhin over and over again to stack AD

Remember zed's second old passive?

I think I've permabanned zed for 4 years now as a mid main. I don't think I've ever been completely destroyed and felt utterly helpless against that good zed player I played against 4 years ago, maybe I was just bad back then. But i remember vividly just unable to cs or walk up or do anything, and zed would repeat kill me under my tower while escaping flawlessly with his ult that i don't think I've ever felt with any other champ.

another day for thescore using ryu's clip

oh.. so this is where Hayabusa from ML was modeled from 😅

Back in the day, if you can't play Lee, Yas or Zed you are an outcast

The problem with Zed is the same problem with LeBlanc, they had too much dash with short cooldowns, even when they make mistakes you can barely punish them.

As a Zed Main, Zed is still VERY VERY STRONG. You just need a lil bit more stills nowadays

Looking at buff if all are true why is velkoz not seeing anything since his passive ult rework nerf like 6 years ago? The last champion ever made without any sort of movement ability in his kit. Sad to see

Also Riot : Akali. The most obnoxious rework I had ever seen from a champion. They gave her the ability to wake into the opponent, harass them relentlessly and don’t even have to waste hp. Someone on Riot much be smoking when they did her rework

Sounds like a masters+ problem tbh because I still do fine on zed and i jungle him. Was under the impression that was his weaker roll. Maybe it’s actually better now? Edit: just looked and according to win rate at least jungle Zed is actually preforming better by half a point. Jungle is sitting at almost 50 while mid is 49%.

This shit is forever ridiculous . There are turret champs who are even shittier to play against, champs who can walk thru walls and be perma stealth who suck more to play against, and people who can go invulnerable that suck to play against even more. Why does mages who get shit on make zed get turned into a dog shit champ . Players are so weird

Huh? I never knew he was "nerfed" Always felt the same no matter what

ofc they would sneak in ryu's face

Zed ain’t a weeb anime girl that they can make a lot of skin on, unlike the other mid lane melee assassin More than half of these “outplays” shown are done by a zed 10 kills ahead, killing the entire enemy team without them having the ability to interact with him. Kinda shows why he is being left behind. He is a relic of the past, his kit is too fast for what the balancing team is going for. Thus he has to pay that power budget in other departments

Another day another video of that Ryu clip. But sheet do it twice 😂

Riot Honestly need to put a game mode where champion are at their peak version. Like imagine garen where his E stacks with atk spd and do on hit dmg. 😂 Then there's Kalista a monster during her peak. And mg-42 kogmaw

The face of zed!! Stylendo!

Zed is supposed to be an assassin, not a spamming mage with such mobility.

"Zed is the most frustrating champ to play against" Meanwhile: Yone and K'Sante just chilling in top lane building tanky items but can still one-shot any squishies

"Zed is most frustrating champion to face against" also riot: releases Hwei with 7 abilities and xerath range

The problem with Zed is he plays like a control mage with his shadow zoning, and it is such a low commitment. Except he can take conqueror and can just as easily switch between control mage and assassin/bruiser

in low to mid rank its still very op, its in high elo that its the problem and thats more of problem cuz any champ in high elo has 1000 movement speed or 10 dashes and people are very good at dodging and shit, some champs like this should not be buffed, i remember zed back then when i was learning the game, the champ could literally tp like 4 times and 1 shot everyone while doing that, bad times, keep him "weak"

unfortunate

zed is literally the kata that need skills

Balance is weakness ~ zed

Remember when qss literally removes zed's deathmark instantly? That sh*t was insane and im glad they removed it.

the fact that zed is nerfed to the ground and champions like aatrox and riven exist makes me sick

Good choice tbh

Zed is him

I remember 2014 , Zed was strong. You can carry 4 disabled monkeys back then playing as Zed.

Never heard that august interview before, zed is the assassin they are keeping intentionally weak? Leblanc is and always has been a better version of him, her q > empowered q even accomplishes a more egregious version of what he described zeds ult doing in low mmr. Yet lb has stayed good enough to pop up in pro play at some point every year for some god-forsaken reason for the entirety of her existence

well, riot frequently doesnt know what to do with their champions. Remember tank ekko?

Funny thing is to keep Zed weak as when he is strong he tilts everyone, while they keep k'sante strong while this champion is the single most frustrating champion i have ever encountered in 13 years of playing league (yeah, more frustrating than singed)

How riot treated zed is legit why i only play aram now. No point in grinding ranked when my favorite champion intentionally gets left behind

Can't stand playing against Zed. Especially a good one, as an ADC main I don't see how I have any way to counter him other than play someone like Kai'sa where I can build Zhonya's without trolling.

As a zed player i gotta say tank meta is way more annoying than playing against him atleast in gold-plat elo

Tekken 8 is so amazing and it came out last week. Jump in it's the best time to start! Im commenting it because score esport dropped FGC because of small engament i guess. Funny, they watched EVO tekken 7 and had blast so kinda sad to see them not even mention new tekken. I wonder what happend with cs2?

just wait till they see the state of adcs in ranked

As one rioter commented a while ago, Zed is made to be trash atm since uf he gets just a bit viable, it becomes meta and players get frustrated to play against him. Other champion that its keep like that too is Quinn. Different strenghts, same result.