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Zed champion portrait

Zed Build

Bot Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,405 gamesUpdated

53.0%win rate0.1%pick21.4%ban

Who counters Zed

  • Draven champion portraitDraven40.7%59 games · 26.20
  • Yasuo champion portraitYasuo43.6%55 games · 26.20
  • Kalista champion portraitKalista44.0%50 games · 26.20
  • Zeri champion portraitZeri46.3%54 games · 26.20
  • Vayne champion portraitVayne48.0%50 games · 26.20

How to build Zed

Ionian Boots of Lucidity→Bastionbreaker→Lord Dominik's Regards→Endless Hunger

Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Bastionbreaker → Lord Dominik's Regards → Endless Hunger

60.0% win rate 6% of games 70 games
RunesInspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicJack Of All TradesPrecisionCut DownLegend: Haste29% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite56%
Skills
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Razor Shuriken
14578
Living Shadow
214151617
Shadow Slash
39101113
Death Mark
612
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Zed build →

Best supports for Zed

Who Zed has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst supports for Zed

Who Zed has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

53.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.4% over 3,468 gamesPatch 26.21: 53.0% over 1,405 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
54.6%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
21.4%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
46.1%under 22 min
54.5%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 40–45m
MASTER+
Zed champion portraitB Zed+Brand champion portraitS BrandvsYone champion portraitB Yone+Lulu champion portraitS Lulu
9 / 11 / 11

Build

Gluttonous Greaves|Hubris→Axiom Arc→Endless Hunger→Serpent's Fang

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Zed champion portraitB Zed+Leona champion portraitS LeonavsLux champion portraitB Lux+Shen champion portraitS Shen
6 / 9 / 9

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Voltaic Cyclosword→Serpent's Fang→Eclipse→Lord Dominik's Regards

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEEREWWWR
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Zed champion portraitB Zed+Gnar champion portraitS GnarvsYasuo champion portraitB Yasuo+Poppy champion portraitS Poppy
6 / 5 / 11

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Hubris→Serpent's Fang→Lord Dominik's Regards→Endless Hunger

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEEREWWW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 56.2% win rate · 29% of games · 329 games
InspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicJack Of All Trades
PrecisionCut DownLegend: Haste
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.9% win rate · 14% of games · 163 games
DominationElectrocuteTaste of BloodGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryScorchTranscendence
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite56%51.7%804 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport36%54.2%522 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity74%Gluttonous Greaves10%Mercury's Treads6%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 53.1% win rate

Zed build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Voltaic Cyclosword1st
  2. Bastionbreaker2nd
  3. Axiom Arc3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path54.0% win rate50 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Zed →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,419 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
73% · 53.2% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
10% · 54.1% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
6% · 57.6% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 51.3% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
3% · 53.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Voltaic Cyclosword+Ionian Boots of Lucidity3% of games · 32.4% win rate · 37 games
  2. Voltaic Cyclosword›Bastionbreaker+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 37.1% win rate · 35 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Zed against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Zed's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number. The best and worst supports are ranked the same way, against Zed's average instead of 50%.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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