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Zed Build

Jungle Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 26,038 gamesUpdated

46.9%win rate1.2%pick21.4%ban

Who counters Zed

Every Jungle matchup for Zed, ranked →

How to build Zed

Ionian Boots of Lucidity→Bastionbreaker→Serylda's Grudge→Edge of Night

Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Bastionbreaker → Serylda's Grudge → Edge of Night

53.5% win rate 6% of games 1,296 games
RunesInspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicCosmic InsightDominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter46% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite99%
Skills
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Razor Shuriken
14578
Living Shadow
314151618
Shadow Slash
29101113
Death Mark
61217
StartScorchclaw PupHealth PotionScorchclaw Pup, Health Potion
Full Zed build →
46.9%win rate
Patch 26.20: 47.2% over 59,901 gamesPatch 26.21: 46.9% over 26,038 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
46.6%at Emerald+
1.2%pick rate
21.4%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 3 last patch
46.0%under 22 min
48.1%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 30–35m
MASTER+
Zed champion portraitJ ZedvsGraves champion portraitJ Graves
4 / 5 / 5

Build

Scorchclaw PupIonian Boots of Lucidity|Voltaic Cyclosword→Axiom Arc→Serylda's Grudge

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWWR
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Zed champion portraitJ ZedvsDarius champion portraitJ Darius
5 / 7 / 3

Build

Scorchclaw PupIonian Boots of Lucidity|Voltaic Cyclosword→Umbral Glaive→Serylda's Grudge

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEEREW
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Zed champion portraitJ ZedvsEvelynn champion portraitJ Evelynn
10 / 9 / 16

Build

Scorchclaw PupIonian Boots of Lucidity|Hubris→Voltaic Cyclosword→Axiom Arc→Edge of Night

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEEREWWWR

Runes

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

Most popular 48.6% win rate · 46% of games · 11,258 games
InspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicCosmic Insight
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 42.1% win rate · 14% of games · 3,536 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
PrecisionCoup de GraceTriumph
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 99% of games, 47.0% win rate. No real variation.

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

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity70%Mercury's Treads8%Gluttonous Greaves7%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 46.9% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup70%
7 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Zed build

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

  1. Bastionbreaker1st
  2. Voltaic Cyclosword2nd
  3. Axiom Arc3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path49.2% win rate1,062 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Zed →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 26,310 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
69% · 46.9% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
8% · 45.4% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
6% · 50.9% win rate
No bootsNo boots
6% · 54.2% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 38.3% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
4% · 46.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Bastionbreaker›Voltaic Cyclosword+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 37.6% win rate · 577 games
  2. Voltaic Cyclosword+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 36.0% win rate · 503 games
  3. Bastionbreaker›Voltaic Cyclosword›Axiom Arc+Ionian Boots of Lucidity1% of games · 38.8% win rate · 312 games
  4. Voltaic Cyclosword›Bastionbreaker+Ionian Boots of Lucidity1% of games · 35.0% win rate · 274 games
  5. Voltaic Cyclosword›Hubris+Ionian Boots of Lucidity1% of games · 30.7% win rate · 257 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.

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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