Zed Build

How to play Zed

Zed – the Master of Shadows – is based on our LoL Tier List on patch a C-Tier Jungle champion. Based on ranked matches from summoners with a PLATINUM+ tier, Zed has a win rate of , a pick rate of , a ban rate of and an average KDA Ratio of , which shows that the Assassin is in a bad spot in the current meta of season 12. If you want to learn how to play Zed on your matches, keep in mind that this champion is mechanically advanced to play in LoL. This Zed guide will give you also an understanding on how to beat Zed. Besides the upcoming Zed Jungle Build the position Mid is a valid choice as well.

Pregame Build

In champion select you need to choose your

Zed runes and summoner spells. The best Zed Jungle Runes are Inspiration as the primary path and Domination as the secondary path. The most supportive Zed keystone rune is First Strike. Flash and Smite are the summoner spells, which fits this LoL Zed Build the most.

Item Build on Zed

The starter items for the best Zed Build on patch

are Emberknife, Refillable Potion, and a Stealth Ward as the trinket. 69% of all Zed Probuilds include Eclipse as the favoured mythic item. As the game progresses, the most popular Zed items are Eclipse and Youmuu's Ghostblade. Ionian Boots of Lucidity are the most bought Zed boots by Pros. This Zed Build will vastly increase your chances to gain LP and to climb the leaderboard in LoL.

Zed Abilities

At the beginning of a match start to skill the ability

Shadow Slash on Zed. As the match progresses, it is best to maximise Razor Shuriken into Shadow Slash and at last Living Shadow. Razor Shuriken is a very strong ability of Zed in order to build up a lead and dominate your opponents. The passive is called Contempt for the Weak and there is no need to set it manually on a Zed Build.

Biography

Utterly ruthless and without mercy, Zed is the leader of the Order of Shadow, an organization he created with the intent of militarizing Ionia’s magical and martial traditions to drive out Noxian invaders. During the war, desperation led him to unlock the secret shadow form—a malevolent spirit magic as dangerous and corrupting as it is powerful. Zed has mastered all of these forbidden techniques to destroy anything he sees as a threat to his nation, or his new order.

Read Zed's bio

Available Zed Skins

Besides the Zed build you can select a skin for Zed. The best Zed skins you can find below.

Explore

• Featured Video: ZED: DEATH MARK
  This assassin doesn’t just strike from the shadows - he is the shadow. And they don’t stand a chance.
• Short Story: The Man with the Steel Cane by Odin Austin Shafer
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• Short Story: The Blade of Millennia by Michael McCarthy
  Kayn stood confidently in the shadow of the noxtoraa, surrounded by dead soldiers, and smiled at the irony. These triumphal arches of dark stone were raised to honor the strength of Noxus—to instill fear and to demand fealty from all who passed beneath them. Now this one was a tombstone, a monument to false strength and arrogance, and a symbol of the fallen warriors’ own fear turned against them.
• Featured Video: Xayah and Rakan: Wild Magic
  Restoring the wild magic of Ionia won’t be easy when a deadly enemy lurks in the shadows.
• Featured Video: Zed: Login Theme