Zed

the Master of Shadows

TopPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

48%

Pick rate

Ban rate

18%

Games

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
60%53%58
Flash + Teleport
35%—34

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
39%—38
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
28%—27

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Lord Dominik's Regards
20%—19

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
63%44%61

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Razor Shuriken → Shadow Slash → Living Shadow

92%49%89

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.