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Zed Build

Top Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 5,565 gamesUpdated

50.2%win rate0.2%pick21.4%ban

Who counters Zed

How to build Zed

Ionian Boots of Lucidity→Voltaic Cyclosword→Bastionbreaker→Lord Dominik's Regards

Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Lord Dominik's Regards

52.9% win rate 5% of games 204 games
RunesInspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicJack Of All TradesPrecisionCut DownLegend: Haste24% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite82%
Skills
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Razor Shuriken
14578
Living Shadow
214151618
Shadow Slash
39101113
Death Mark
61217
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Zed build →
50.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.5% over 13,443 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.2% over 5,565 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.6%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
21.4%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
52.7%under 22 min
49.4%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.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Zed champion portraitT ZedvsTryndamere champion portraitT Tryndamere
2 / 4 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Voltaic Cyclosword→Bastionbreaker→Serylda's Grudge

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEEREWWWR
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Zed champion portraitT ZedvsRiven champion portraitT Riven
1 / 3 / 0

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Voltaic Cyclosword

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEER
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Zed champion portraitT ZedvsWukong champion portraitT Wukong
7 / 5 / 4

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Voltaic Cyclosword→Serpent's Fang→Hubris

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWR

Runes

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

Most popular 51.9% win rate · 24% of games · 1,138 games
InspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicJack Of All Trades
PrecisionCut DownLegend: Haste
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.7% win rate · 19% of games · 897 games
InspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicCosmic Insight
PrecisionCut DownLegend: Haste
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 + Ignite82%50.6%4,680 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport14%49.9%807 games

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

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity68%Plated Steelcaps9%Gluttonous Greaves8%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 51.0% win rate

Zed build

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

  1. Voltaic Cyclosword1st
  2. Bastionbreaker2nd
  3. Lord Dominik's Regards3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path57.1% win rate168 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Zed →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 5,643 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
67% · 51.1% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
9% · 49.3% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
8% · 54.8% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
8% · 45.7% win rate
No bootsNo boots
4% · 53.8% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 40.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Voltaic Cyclosword›Bastionbreaker+Ionian Boots of Lucidity4% of games · 49.3% win rate · 213 games
  2. Voltaic Cyclosword+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 34.7% win rate · 124 games
  3. Eclipse›Voltaic Cyclosword+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 36.3% win rate · 91 games
  4. Eclipse+Ionian Boots of Lucidity1% of games · 44.2% win rate · 77 games
  5. Bastionbreaker›Voltaic Cyclosword+Ionian Boots of Lucidity1% of games · 32.9% win rate · 70 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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