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Zed Quotes

283 voice lines from League of Legends, 25 of them in Zed's own voice. Two skins come with a voice of their own: Galaxy Slayer, Debonair.

Pick

"The unseen blade is the deadliest."

Ban

"Do not deny me."

Zed's interactions conversation pages with both sides

Champion Select

Pick

  • "The unseen blade is the deadliest."

Ban

  • "Do not deny me."

Movement

Moving

  • "Without a sound."
  • "No technique is forbidden."
  • "Brave the shadows, find the truth."
  • "Do not fear the shrouded path."
  • "Balance is a fool's master."
  • "Secrets kept are weapons wasted."
  • "The shadows have enlightened me."
  • "Balance is weakness."
  • "The truth lies in darkness."
  • "Tradition is the corpse of wisdom."
  • "What I have done... cannot be undone."

First Encounter

First Encounter with Shen

  • "Challenge me, Shen... you shall not be an orphan long!"

Taunt

  • "Embrace the shadow... or die in darkness!"
  • "The merest shade of me... is enough to defeat you!"

Attacking

Attacking

  • "Only the worthy will survive."
  • "I am the blade in the darkness."
  • "Cut the last breath from them."
  • "The shadow is within."
  • "Punish restraint."
  • "Do not deny me."
  • "They follow the wrong master."
  • "None escape their shadow."
  • "Ignorance is fatal."

Skin voices

These skins record their own lines. Open one to read them.

Galaxy Slayer 139 lines

See these skins in 3D: Galaxy Slayer Zed, Quantum Galaxy Slayer Zed

Movement › First Move

  • "We are life, perfected."
  • "What we have seen... what we have done... you are all part of it."
  • "We will cure the galaxy of conflict. We will cure the galaxy of ignorance."
  • "We once bowed before the Templars. Now, we are the truth they deny."

Movement › First Move › First Move with Ally Odyssey

  • "Someone here likes Ora. Shall we demonstrate its power?"

Movement › First Move › First Move with Enemy Odyssey

  • "Our enemy came all this way to face us? And they say we try too hard."

Movement › Moving

  • "Simple life forms surround us."
  • "The unknown is here."
  • "We will show the universe its true potential."
  • "Tradition pacifies the weak."
  • "The Templars restrain us no more."
  • "Ora... the essence of all things."
  • "Some consider us evil... How naive they must be."
  • "Let us remind the universe what we are."
  • "Remorse is futile."
  • "If they want Ora... we will give it."
  • "Our blades crave battle."
  • "No more sacred orders. No more limitations."
  • "Harmony blooms once the weak wither away."
  • "Listen to the cosmos. Hear the truth."
  • "The galaxy will know its destiny."
  • "We. Are. Enlightened."
  • "Beyond the reaches of space, we evolve."
  • "Only fools cling to morals."
  • "We are the gift this galaxy needs."
  • "Behold! The pinnacle of creation."
  • "We are everywhere, all at once."
  • "A new genesis approaches."
  • "Only time can judge us."
  • "We walk the path to eternity."
  • "The Templars promise salvation. They lie."
  • "We let the monster out."
  • "We gaze upon the stars and see no limits."
  • "We go where others dare not."

Movement › Long Move

  • "The weak crave the illusion of balance. The worthy enforce true harmony."
  • "Someone must destroy the weak. Let it be us."
  • "So many try to hide their worst fears. And yet, we walk free."
  • "The galaxy... a vast expanse infested by the weak."
  • "How we long for something simpler. Harmony..."
  • "Templars, Demaxians, the Syndicate, all blind fools."
  • "There is only triumph and we will claim it all."
  • "They see us as a living weapon. We are more than that. We are life transcended!"
  • "These creatures waste their Ora. Let us pluck it out!"
  • "We grow ever stronger under the living stars."
  • "Acquire forbidden power. Defy sacred doctrine. This is just the beginning."
  • "The Demaxians conquer planets. We enlighten galaxies."
  • "The Templars say our deeds are extreme. They are right."
  • "Do not challenge us! We extend beyond your understanding."
  • "Humanity achieves so little. Grant them Ora and still they wallow in mediocrity."
  • "Before us, there was nothing. Before nothing, there were monsters."
  • "When life grows unchecked, cleansing blades are needed."
  • "They mistake evolution for corruption. That is why they will fall."

First Encounter › First Encounter with a Cosmic

  • "You intend to destroy us. A grave mistake."
  • "This pain urges us to kill you, though we do not know why."

First Encounter › First Encounter with a Dark Star

  • "What are you!?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Odyssey Jinx

  • "Worthy spirit, Jinx. But it cannot save you... from us."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Odyssey Kayn Both sides

  • "In another life, Kayn, you might have been a half-decent pupil."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Odyssey Malphite

  • "Malphite, we heard you were hard to kill. Challenge accepted."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Odyssey Sona Both sides

  • "Sona, we both know the Templars lie. Join us!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Odyssey Yasuo

  • "Captain Yasuo. This is your crew? Your brother would be so disappointed..."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Odyssey Ziggs

  • "Tell us, Ziggs, do space rats go to Heaven?"

Taunt

  • "We offer you a choice: Die now, or die later."
  • "You are dust. We are perfection."
  • "You will love the way you die. We guarantee it."

Taunt › Taunt Response

  • "We pray you fight better than you talk."

Joke

  • "Cooking is like killing. It takes skill, and ours is unmatched."
  • "Have you come to dine with us? Oh, wait... of course. You are us."
  • "Look at us! Are we not the perfect reflection of your juvenile fantasies?"

Joke › Joke Response

  • "Your jokes. They lack humor."

Attack › Attacking

  • "Witness our superior form."
  • "Silence your thoughts."
  • "The cosmos demands better."
  • "We bring extinction."
  • "You do not deserve life."
  • "All will fear us."
  • "Eradicate the weak."
  • "You will not deny us."
  • "Disharmony..."
  • "None shall escape."
  • "Your Ora needs release."
  • "No room for the weak."
  • "Pathetic life form."
  • "You coward."
  • "Your time is over."
  • "Cut to pieces."
  • "Weak!"
  • "Sever."
  • "Let's end your existence."
  • "Lowly creature."
  • "Craven fool!"
  • "Your body will break."
  • "All life ends."
  • "Our blades cry out."
  • "How frail you are!"
  • "Have the decency to die."
  • "You earned oblivion."
  • "Pathetic scum."
  • "No mercy."

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Odyssey Jinx

  • "That arm looks heavy, Jinx. Let's cut it off."

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Odyssey Kayn Both sides

  • "Kayn! Our first and final lesson begins."

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Odyssey Malphite

  • "Blades beat fists, Malphite."

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Odyssey Sona Both sides

  • "Sona, you disappoint us!"

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Odyssey Yasuo

  • "Are you worthy of that title, 'captain'?"

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Odyssey Ziggs

  • "Ready to be disgraced again, Ziggs?"

Ability Casting › Using Living Shadow

  • "Perfection."
  • "Divide."
  • "Behold."
  • "Flawless."
  • "One more."
  • "Replicate."

Ability Casting › Using Death Mark

  • "We. Are. Zed."
  • "It's over."
  • "You're already dead."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Champion

  • "So fragile. So weak."
  • "Even your best falls short."
  • "Life, at a price."
  • "Embrace your destiny."
  • "Survival of the fittest."
  • "What was that filth?"
  • "Is your entire species this brittle?"
  • "Are you humbled? You should be."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Odyssey Jinx

  • "We almost miss your voice, Jinx. It had a certain... loud quality."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Odyssey Kayn Both sides

  • "Not good enough, Kayn."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Odyssey Malphite

  • "Not even close, Malphite."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Odyssey Sona Both sides

  • "We thought you knew better, Sona."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Odyssey Yasuo

  • "No cure for foolish captains."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Zed

  • "Look at the skill. Look at the moves. Zed, what was that!?"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Odyssey Ziggs

  • "Confirmed: space rats do not go to Heaven."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Pentakill

  • "We are life. We are evolution! We. Are. Zed."
  • "One by one they all fall down."
  • "Consider this our gift."

Recall

  • "A moment of peace... before our victory."
  • "You all may live... until we return."
  • "We go... to collect untold power."

Death

  • "The Galaxy still needs us..."
  • "Ora lasts forever..."

Death › Respawn

  • "Nothing can bury us."
  • "Not even death can contain us."
  • "We do not regret."
Debonair 119 lines

See this skin in 3D: Debonair Zed

Movement › First Move

  • "I'm part of a very exclusive club. But don't worry. Soon enough you'll all be members too.
  • "I'm more than a man in a fancy suit."
  • "I look good, I feel... good." Zed chuckles menacingly.

Movement › Moving

  • "Everyone sees the suit. No one sees what's coming."
  • "I own this town, inside and out."
  • "True power deserves a look to match."
  • "Everybody drank the vitae."
  • "The shadows demand chaos. They will have it."
  • "The brighter the town, the darker its shadows."
  • "I am the shadow at your back, the dark within your mind."
  • "My... 'investors' are watching closely."
  • "I found my place in this world and the next."
  • "Zed has never looked better."
  • "Dressed to the nines."
  • "Truth hidden is truth wasted."
  • "The vitae has... enlightened me."
  • "I cast a long shadow from the high life."
  • "What I have done is just the beginning."
  • "Brave the beyond and it will reward you."
  • "I'm a well-respected man."
  • "All will gutter into darkness."
  • "My shadows are much more than tricks of the light."
  • "The dark is intoxicating."
  • "This power is so... tantalizing."
  • "Why fight, when the only outcome is Zed?"
  • "In the business of killing, I'm always number one."
  • "Do not fear what you cannot understand."
  • "Style and substance."

Movement › Long Move

  • "Crime City is a template for everything to come."
  • "If the world must be reborn, might as well dress for the occasion."
  • "You know what they say: the suit makes the man, the man becomes something more."
  • "Gaze beyond the glitz and glamor, and see what's writhing underneath."
  • "The sun never sets. The lights never dim. And the shadows bide their time."
  • "I've struck a lot of deals, but this one was too good to pass up."
  • "The dark is transforming us into what we were always meant to be."
  • "We all know what's coming. I've simply... secured my future."
  • "Dark, pure, untainted."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Debonair

  • "Time for a night on the town, wouldn't you say?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Debonair Brand

  • "Brand... your head is on fire."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Debonair Draven

  • "Ah, our illustrious high-roller Draven. Here to make a bad bet?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Debonair LeBlanc

  • "Who are you, LeBlanc? Or should I say, what are you?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Debonair Leona

  • "That shield won't block out their truth, Leona, but you know that."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Debonair Malzahar

  • "You knew what was in the vitae... didn't you, Malz?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Debonair Master Yi Both sides

  • "Rare for you to leave your penthouse, Yi. Something wrong?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Kayn Both sides

  • "We're not hiring another ventriloquist. Get lost, kid."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Shen

  • "I told you, we aren't hiring another ninja act."

Taunt

  • Zed laughs derisively. "You have no idea how dead you're about to be."

Taunt › Taunt Response

  • "Instead of running away, you're coming closer?"

Joke

  • "Elder-gods crazy for a sharp-dressed Zed."

Joke › Joke Response

  • "Oh? Funny."

Attack › Attacking

  • "They are watching us."
  • "You could never be me."
  • "My patrons wish to know you."
  • "A glimpse into forever."
  • "This is your reward."
  • "Looking for me?"
  • "Let's paint the town black."
  • "Time to make a point."
  • "This truth comes at a price."
  • "Eternity is closing in."
  • "More than you bargained for!"
  • "Fear the living shadows!"
  • "Somebody stop me."
  • "You have earned the truth."
  • "The House always wins."
  • "See the power of vitae."
  • "Now for the grand reveal."
  • "Allow me to demonstrate."
  • "If you insist."
  • "A cut above."
  • "A taste of the high life."
  • "Don't get blood on the suit."
  • "You've drawn my attention."
  • "I'll end this with style."

Ability Casting › Using Razor Shuriken

  • "Silence!"
  • "Coward!"
  • "Die!"
  • "Witness!"
  • "Behold!"
  • "Perish!"

Ability Casting › Using Living Shadow › Recast

  • "Over here!"
  • "Foolish!"
  • "Too late!"
  • "So easy!"
  • "Try again!"
  • "Here I am."
  • "Too slow!"

Ability Casting › Using Death Mark

  • "Behold, true darkness!"
  • "No more games!"
  • "The truth before the end."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Champion

  • "I am beyond you, and always have been."
  • "I'm done with you, though my patrons are not."
  • "Don't challenge your betters."
  • "Surprised? You wouldn't be the first."
  • "I destroyed you, and looked fantastic doing it."
  • "A great change is coming. No one will stand in its way."
  • "You could never compare."
  • "Jumping at shadows?"
  • "That look of realization, I love to see it."
  • "Want to know a secret? They're all me."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Crime City Nightmare

  • "Your next vitae shipment just doubled, and I want them... for free."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Debonair

  • "Stay out of my town, deadbeat."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Debonair Brand

  • "You burned my jacket, Brand. Expect a bill."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Debonair Draven

  • "A lesson, Draven: don't bet more than you've got."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Debonair LeBlanc

  • "You may be infinite, but I'm the one with the power here."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Debonair Leona

  • "So long, Leona. Now no one is left to stop the change."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Debonair Malzahar

  • "You put the vitae in my hand, Malz. You let the old ones in."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Debonair Master Yi Both sides

  • "It's too late, Yi. Nox Vegas belongs to the dark."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Pentakill

  • "The darkness never looked better!"

Recall

  • "Power comes at a price. One I found quite agreeable."
  • "Behind every successful man... is something worse."
  • "They never like my outfit!" Zed laughs sarcastically.
  • "Tailoring's a little tight..." Zed chuckles sarcastically.

Death

  • "They're in the... vitae..."

Death › Respawn

  • "I exist in every shadow. Death means nothing."
  • "It seems the Board has reinstated me." Zed chuckles sarcastically.
  • "There's more in the vitae than they realize."
  • "Seems the man in the fancy suit just won't stay down."
  • "I could do this forever, and with this power, I will!"

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Every line here is quoted as the League of Legends Wiki transcribes it. Voice lines belong to Riot Games. Sound effects and the wiki's trivia notes are left out. Quote text is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, from the League of Legends Wiki's revision 4028180 (June 13, 2026).