Zed, the Master of Shadows, is a melee assassin champion. In fights Zed is a fragile champion who deals physical damage in bursts. Here are the augments Zed players take most, the Prismatic items worth grabbing and the core build on patch 26.20.
After casting your Ultimate, mark all enemy champions for death. While marked, store damage dealt to them, and detonate the damage when the mark ends.
Casting Death Mark (R) marks every enemy champion, so the damage your Razor Shuriken (Q) and Shadow Slash (E) spread across their team is stored and detonates.
Gain 15% Armor Penetration and Magic Penetration.
Your Razor Shuriken (Q), Shadow Slash (E) and Death Mark (R) all deal physical damage, so Armor Penetration raises nearly your whole combo.
Your Abilities can Critically Strike. Gain Crit Chance.
Your Razor Shuriken (Q) and Shadow Slash (E) can now crit, and Death Mark (R) repeats part of those bigger hits when it triggers.
In game, Hexgate puts a badge under every augment card you are offered, with how often Zed players take it.
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Based on 31,131 Zed games in Arena on patch 26.20. Augments and items are ordered by how often Zed players take them; the bars compare each one with the most taken.
Augment offers come in Silver, Gold and Prismatic. These are the cards Zed players take most at each rarity, most taken first.
Jeweled Gauntlet
Clown College
Earthwake
Dashing
It's Killing Time
Thread the Needle
Transmute: Prismatic
The Brutalizer
escAPADe
Contract KillerThe Prismatic items Zed players pick most often from the offer, most picked first.
Duskblade of Draktharr
Prowler's Claw
Regicide
Flesheater
Sword of the Divine
Divine SundererBoots to start, then the items Zed players build most often in Arena, most built first. Adapt the order to the lobby: every other team is an opponent.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Gluttonous Greaves
Voltaic Cyclosword
Hellfire Hatchet
Serylda's Grudge
Prowler's Claw
Serpent's Fang
Axiom ArcThe order Zed players level their abilities in most often: max Razor Shuriken (Q) first, then Shadow Slash (E), and take Death Mark (R) whenever you can.
QRazor Shuriken
EShadow Slash
WLiving Shadow| Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | ||||||||||
| W | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| E | E | E | E | E | E | ||||||||||
| R | R | R |
On patch 26.20 Zed players take It's Killing Time, Thread the Needle and Jeweled Gauntlet most often.
The Prismatic items Zed players pick most are Duskblade of Draktharr, Prowler's Claw and Regicide.
Start with Ionian Boots of Lucidity, then the items Zed players build most: Voltaic Cyclosword, Hellfire Hatchet and Serylda's Grudge. Adapt the rest to the lobby.
Max Razor Shuriken (Q) first, then Shadow Slash (E), and level Death Mark (R) whenever you can.
On patch 26.20 Zed is A tier in the Arena tier list: strong, reliable picks.
Arena tier list for all champions · Zed in ARAM Mayhem
Champion names, art, items and abilities: Riot Games Data Dragon. Augment names, art and text: the game files. Hexgate is not endorsed by Riot Games.
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