Permanently BANNED: Zed | League of Legends

Next episode of Permanently Banned will be featuring arguably THE most banned champion of all time: Zed!

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[LesbianWitchAcademia]

My friends and i have a saying about Zed. "Zed is a control mage, and his brand of control is murder."

[zygo]

Surprised there’s no mention of him having an energy bar rather than mana. The real pain in the ass is that you can’t even outlast a finite resource bar, since a few seconds of downtime means he can do it all over agaib

[kromtastic]

Vars talking about his sponsor - "they're giving away a free..."

Ad interrupts - "New KFC saucy nuggets"

Me listening in the car - "that's a good deal..."

[Stocky]

I think another reason is that Zed has no actual dash but rather blinks. Like Katarina it makes the champion infinitely more frustrating as many peel or lockdown tools don’t work on him. Veigar cage? Akali stays in there, Zed doesn’t. Milio Q? Zed Jumps over it, Qiyana doesn’t. Poppy W? Zed gets to do his full combo, Fizz doesn’t. The only other champion that can do all of that is Katarina, however her main mobility tool is not free target so it limits her options a bit more.

[atomickarate]

Like Riot August once said Zed is constantly kept at a weaker state because his neutral unlike other assassins is torture. He likes to torture you before closing in.

[JackRackam]

Haven't played this game in probably 9 months, and I still felt my blood pressure spike seeing the thumbnail

[Fiddle]

I can't wait for the "Permanently Banned: Morgana" video where the only reason is the single ability that nobody is good at dodging

Edit: MB forgot about E lmao I don't main tank or engage supports

[kirsvald]

-What is an assassin?

Oh, i have answer to this, it's annoying fuck!

[pangoomb]

Playing against zed is like playing rock paper scissors but the only problem is zed is both Rock and paper at the same time

[Langharig_Tuig]

Among velkoz mains we joke about the top 3 of artillery mages: Xerath, Ziggs, and Zed.
Because Velkoz is just that insanely weak and gets weaker every update, meanwhile Zed is just an AD artillery mage with a point click finish once he has poked someone low enough

[insheepsclothing]

Zed the champions himself is one fo the reason I permaban him when I play mid, but from experience (between low plat and low emerald the last 2 to 3 years) I feel like Zed players are extremely dedicated to their champs, and by that I mean that they are completely lost whenever they have to play something else. The number of times I stomped my ennemy midlaner and checked their profile postgame only to see that the had hundreds of thousands of mastery points with zed and barely 50.000 with their secondary champion felt way higher than any other champ community

[bmac]

What pissed me off about Zed is you know he's coming and you know he is going to get away with it. Zed ult is the most telegraphed "I'm going to kill you now" engage button, but if you're playing a squishy with no "get off me" tool you know he's gonna get away with it anyway. Its infuriating.

He's not overpowered but damn is he so often not fun to play into.

[mariannapapikyan]

The fact that you can make "Hated champions" video on almost every assassin is wild

[JagorM]

Assassin have to put themselves in dangerous situations. Laughs in Ekko and Evelynn

[davidli]

Zed players love to say it's low elo player that can't deal with him but even at high elo his ban rate is very high for his pick rate and win rate.

[LordKeram]

Zed being an ad control mage was especially true last season. Ravenous Hydra Zed quite literally never had to go in. He could just endlessly clear waves while poking you down and also healing up any retaliatory damage.

[torri]

I know this may be unrelated, Season 13 was also the season where Riven was at her strongest, being able to scale after falling behind early against Tanks with superior damage and rotations. Now Riven suffers the same earlygame shortcomings, but lacks the scaling. Riven scales off two things: Armor Penetration and Haste, both moreso than actual AD. Yes, the shield strength and passive stacks benefit from AD, but Armor Pen and Haste are much more conducive to Riven's gameplay.

[papads-chan]

I mean, i've personally aways countered Zed with my good 'ol pantheon mid. It's so funny to poke him back with Q and suddenly he lost 2/4 of his hp while you're still healthy or even better: Him using his shadow to avoid your W or Q and getting stat checked to death while you have more damage and damage negation tools (E).

Nice vid! I love your content AND your good taste for champions in league.

[zeal]

Zed main here, another point on why I think people dislike him, is because of the way his ultimate works, the dmg not being instand but leaving you alive for a some time even tho you know you're already dead, I think people find it frustaiting.
Another great video man!!

[Blu_Moon_Owl]

Hmmm an AD assassin champ that has the easiest way to engage and escape from 100-0 a squishy champ and sometimes tankier champs with little to no counterplay except hard CC would be banned HALF of the time playing league

Wild!
Akali could fit this too with AP instead