Zed

the Master of Shadows

MidPatch 16.19Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

50%

Pick rate

10%

Ban rate

21%

Games

3.68k

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
76%49%2.8k
Flash + Teleport
21%53%767
Exhaust + Flash
1.7%52%64

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
27%49%982
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
25%51%927
Long Sword, Refillable Potion, Stealth Ward
9.6%51%353

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Lord Dominik's Regards
15%54%535
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Serylda's Grudge
7.3%53%269
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Edge of Night
7.2%62%266

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
66%51%2.4k
Gluttonous Greaves
16%50%593
Mercury's Treads
11%49%421

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Edge of Night
9.4%55%
Serylda's Grudge
8.6%62%
Endless Hunger
6.4%64%
Lord Dominik's Regards
6.0%56%

Fifth item

Endless Hunger
4.2%56%
Edge of Night
3.8%58%
Axiom Arc
1.9%65%
Serpent's Fang
1.7%52%

Sixth item

Endless Hunger
0.6%—
Guardian Angel
0.5%—
Youmuu's Ghostblade
0.4%—

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Razor Shuriken → Shadow Slash → Living Shadow

91%51%3.4k

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

Q › W › E1% of games— win
E › Q › W1% of games— win

Matchups

How games went when this mid met them

Does well into

vs its own average

Struggles into

vs its own average

Counted from 53,272 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.19 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.