Zed

the Master of Shadows

TopPatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

54%

Pick rate

11%

Ban rate

21%

Games

449

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
66%55%296
Flash + Teleport
30%51%133
Exhaust + Flash
3.3%—15

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
31%53%139
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
30%53%134
Long Sword, Refillable Potion
8.9%—40

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Lord Dominik's Regards
14%48%62
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Serylda's Grudge
8.5%—38
Eclipse → Voltaic Cyclosword → Lord Dominik's Regards
4.9%—22

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
67%55%299
Gluttonous Greaves
13%54%59
Plated Steelcaps
7.3%—33

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Edge of Night
11%—
Endless Hunger
7.8%—
Serpent's Fang
6.5%—
Lord Dominik's Regards
4.0%—

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

91%56%407

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 34,456 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.18 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.