Zed

the Master of Shadows

MidPatch 16.21Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

50%

Pick rate

10%

Ban rate

20%

Games

2.58k

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
80%49%2.1k
Flash + Teleport
17%51%443
Cleanse + Flash
1.0%—27

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion
26%48%669
Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
26%52%665
Long Sword, Health Potion, Health Potion, Health Potion
8.2%49%212

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Lord Dominik's Regards
16%53%415
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Serylda's Grudge
5.6%60%144
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Serpent's Fang
4.7%53%120

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
71%51%1.8k
Mercury's Treads
12%47%304
Gluttonous Greaves
9.4%55%242

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Endless Hunger
9.1%59%
Edge of Night
9.0%59%
Serylda's Grudge
6.4%62%
Lord Dominik's Regards
5.8%53%

Fifth item

Edge of Night
3.7%61%
Endless Hunger
3.6%65%
Serpent's Fang
1.7%—
Axiom Arc
1.6%—

Sixth item

Guardian Angel
0.7%—

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Razor Shuriken → Shadow Slash → Living Shadow

92%51%2.4k

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

Matchups

How games went when this mid met them

Does well into

vs its own average

Struggles into

vs its own average

Counted from 37,946 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.21 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.