In his current state, zed is a champ that gets outperformed by most mid laners. He’s lost his identity, and he’s been pushed into a boring ad mage playstyle. With his reputation, I doubt he’s gonna get buffed… ever, and especially with the fact that this sub despises the champ.
It’ll take a while until Zed gets attention to reshift his early game playstyle/goals.
Probably until the community gets annoyed enough by how much ability haste he gets mid-late. Where he’s at right now probably has decreased his pickrate except from diehard Zed players.
remember when zed used to build blade? i member
People can’t decide on what they want him to be.
Some people complain when he’s early game focused and can pop people at the level of damage and speed he used to when Lethality was flat armor penetration and the durability update wasn’t a thing. AKA, sub-1 second genuine oneshot erased from existence.
So Riot reduces damage, but since that means he can’t kill as readily, they up ability haste so he can stay relevant, turning him into a weird AD mage/semi-ranged fighter focused on lategame ability haste and long-drawn out fights, and chunking people over and over until he can finish them off.
But some people complain that he then has his abilities up too often and that there’s not enough penalty for using his abilities.
I thought zed was only a champ select feature to make midlane more fun