Zed

the Master of Shadows

TopPatch 16.20Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

54%

Pick rate

10%

Ban rate

21%

Games

694

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
66%55%458
Flash + Teleport
29%53%203
Exhaust + Flash
2.7%—19

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
29%59%199
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
25%51%176
Doran's Shield, Health Potion
7.9%44%55

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Lord Dominik's Regards
15%56%101
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Edge of Night
6.3%—44
Eclipse → Voltaic Cyclosword → Lord Dominik's Regards
5.6%—39

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
69%57%479
Gluttonous Greaves
12%56%80
Mercury's Treads
6.3%—44

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Endless Hunger
9.7%58%
Serylda's Grudge
7.1%—
Edge of Night
6.5%—
Serpent's Fang
5.5%—

Fifth item

Edge of Night
3.9%—
Endless Hunger
2.9%—
Axiom Arc
2.2%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Razor Shuriken → Shadow Slash → Living Shadow

94%56%655

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 54,302 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.20 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.