Zed Build
Support Tier 2Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 2,340 gamesUpdated
Who counters Zed
Xerath36.4%77 games
Braum36.8%68 games · 26.20
Zyra35.3%51 games · 26.20
Pyke39.5%81 games
Brand38.7%62 games
How to build Zed
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Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Axiom Arc
39% of games
Flash + Ignite95%
World Atlas, Health Potion, Health PotionBest ADCs for Zed
Who Zed has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.
Worst ADCs for Zed
Who Zed has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.
Miss Fortune38.4%151 games
Draven32.1%53 games · 26.20
Ezreal40.1%272 games
Varus35.6%45 games
Aphelios38.2%55 games
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.
Zed Support gets worse as the elo rises. 43.8% across Silver and above, but 39.1% once you look at Emerald and up. Sites that only sample high elo will show you the second number. Both are real; which one applies depends on the games you are actually playing.
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.
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B Ezrealvs
S Galio+
B Miss FortuneBuild
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B Samiravs
S Alistar+
B TwitchBuild
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S Zed+
B Apheliosvs
S Pantheon+
B CaitlynBuild
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S Zed+B Miss Fortunevs
S Thresh+B CaitlynBuild
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S Zed+
B Jhinvs
S Malphite+
B KalistaBuild
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S Zed+
B SmoldervsS Thresh+B ApheliosBuild
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S Zed+B Jhinvs
S Lulu+B KalistaBuild
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S Zed+
B Xerathvs
S Soraka+
B KarthusBuild
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S Zed+B CaitlynvsS Thresh+B ApheliosBuild
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S Zed+B XerathvsS Lulu+
B Kai'SaBuild
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The full page most players run, not just the keystone.
Summoner spells and early items
What people bring, and which ability they max first.
- Flash + Ignite95%44.1%2,269 games
Exhaust + Flash4%48.8%86 games
Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.
76%7%
5%71%12%
7%7%Zed build
The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.
- 1st
- 2nd
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Every slot, boots and full builds
Slot by slot
Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity75% · 44.3% win rate
Boots6% · 39.9% win rate
Mercury's Treads5% · 44.3% win rate
No boots5% · 42.9% win rate
Plated Steelcaps3% · 41.1% win rate
Gluttonous Greaves3% · 55.4% win rate
Most common full builds
- +5% of games · 37.4% win rate · 107 games
- ›+3% of games · 31.7% win rate · 60 games
- ›+2% of games · 39.6% win rate · 53 games
- +2% of games · 44.7% win rate · 47 games
- ›+2% of games · 42.6% win rate · 47 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 ADCs 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.