Zed

the Master of Shadows

MidPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

52%

Pick rate

Ban rate

18%

Games

426

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
65%55%276
Flash + Teleport
31%47%134

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion
31%54%131
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
30%59%126
Doran's Shield, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
7.0%—30

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Lord Dominik's Regards
12%57%51
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Edge of Night
6.8%—29
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Serylda's Grudge
5.4%—23

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
68%55%290
Gluttonous Greaves
16%43%68
Mercury's Treads
8.5%—36

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Edge of Night
8.2%—
Serylda's Grudge
7.0%—
Endless Hunger
6.8%—
Lord Dominik's Regards
6.3%—

Fifth item

Endless Hunger
3.8%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Razor Shuriken → Shadow Slash → Living Shadow

88%54%373

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W												W	W	W		W
E			E					E		E	E		E
R						R						R					R

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 7,138 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.17 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.