How to Counter ZED! (Ultimate Guide)

hey everyone welcome to skill caps ultimate guide to counter in Zed we Pegg said since he has one of the highest ban rates in LA LA and just sucks to lane against especially if you're not very experienced in the mid lane he's a champion that just doesn't feel fair to play against unless you really know what you're doing which is why he gets banned so often this is an experimental content type where we rounded a mix of our website subscribers and random midlane mains from a college campus in Austin Texas totaling 250 players total we questioned them about why it sucks to meet a Zed and then we recorded them laning versus our challenge of mid lane experts here at skill cap to see how they did in between our challenges stomping these bronze to diamond players we would jump into a cool and tell them what to do differently we saw huge results in their success when laning versus said and our challenger player Hector even goes solar killed by a gold player so not only have we put out gets to the task but this research also let us know precisely what players don't know when laning against ed in the first place which is why this guide is 20 minutes long it's comprehensive you'll also hear different voices during this guide since we compiled this counter course from our website which is separated into six chapters chapter 1 knowing your enemy does W living shadow allows him to send out you guess that a shadow you can use a once to swap to it as a gap closer it also mimics every ability that he casts allowing him to throw out two seconds and two shadows lashes do you know what the cooldown of this ability is the answer is 22 seconds knowing the cooldown is vital to beating Zed which we'll talk more about later in this guide it also has a deceptively high range of 650 which is a hundred higher than the average mages auto-attack sells Razer shockin is his q ability this is what he skills up first and where a huge portion of the damage comes from that being said it has a key weakness which is that it does 40% less damage on enemies hit B on the first Wednesday thoroughly shaken you want to position yourself so that a million is in front of you this way if it does land take significantly less damage Zed's e cherry slash is his secondary damaging ability it also applies a slayer but only when it lands from his shadow not from Zed himself this Slayer can help him set up landing his shopkins after a devastating combat that you'll be learning exactly how to defend against said our guest mark is often what he uses to all in he disappears for a brief moment before appearing behind the target leaving a shadow in his original position then for the next three seconds his stores a percentage of all damage said does before detonating at the end there are specific ways to counter this frustrating ability which we'll be covering in detail later on in this guide so stay tuned and finally we have sets passive this enables Ed's melee attacks to deal bonus magic damage when the target is at 50% or lower health now that you're equipped with the basic knowledge of Zed skill is time to jump into the next chapter as we learn how to count his said chapter 2 beating Zed before he can fight back now who wouldn't want to win their lane again said in the first few minutes of the game this is exactly what you're going to learn to do in this section of the guide Zed's at his absolute weakest during levels one and two but to understand how to capitalize on this we first need to know what set is trying to accomplish at level 1 Zed will be trying to land a full damage cue on you as we know Zed's qutuz 40% less damage against units hippy on the first he'll try to unlock the full potential of this ability by hitting you while you're unprotected by your minions to counter this you want to position yourself inside your minion wave constantly having a minion between you and Zed this way when he tries to hit you with a shuriken the minion in front of you will absorb 40 percent of the damage you'd otherwise take once that hits level 2 most players start to get scared but this is a huge mistake Zed doesn't really get any stronger at this point this is because that needs to unlock all 3 of his abilities at level 3 in order to be an actual threat with his weq combo something will be breaking down in detail later on in this guide at level 2 he'll be missing one of the abilities needed to execute this combo for example if he takes Q and E at level 2 then he won't have his w-2 poke or engage if he instead takes Q and W then he won't have his ability resulting in him lacking a slow to set up a shuriken x' while doing significantly less damage for these reasons his goal will be the exact same as when he's level 1 land a full damaged shuriken by hitting you when you're unprotected by your minions because of how weak he is levels 1 to 2 we have a very specific game plan of our own first when you enter the lane you want to immediately start damaging the minions your goal is to stay ahead one minion of experience on Zed our next goal is to constantly harassed said whenever he moves in range of our auto attacks and abilities remember you'll be positioning yourself so a minion is constantly between you and Zed reducing the damage of his Q with you landing abilities combined with Auto attacks there's no way Zed can actually win any trades against you for example let's take a look at how an Orianna implements this strategy to absolutely demolish a gold said the second he gets into lane as Zed moves up to kill the melee minions on the first wave loriana positions herself with a minion between her and Zed as that gets in range of her Oriana goes aggressive putting Zed down to almost half health and the lanes just started during this phase we also want to take advantage of Zed's Q being on cooldown for six seconds as this is his only way of fighting back again let's watch this Oriana implement this simple strategy said uses his Q so Orianna immediately looks to Lance and Polk she then goes back to positioning herself behind a minion as Zed's q is back off cooldown by following this game plan you'll get Zed low on health while building up a minion advantage that will cause a slow push towards that's tower this will allow you to hit level two before him and then level three before him when executed correctly this will slow push a big wave crashing into Zed's tower now this is when you'll put the nail in the coffin with Zed being distracted with having to last hit so many minions under his Tower and with you having a large minion wave to protect you you can rain down harass on him outside of the towers range as you can see by executing this simple and straightforward gameplan said will be extremely low on health have no more health pods and you've now won your lane in the first few minutes of the game chapter three wins that fights back now this next phase is where ninety percent of players lose lane to Zed so listen up when Zed hits level three he unlocks his devastatingly powerful weq combo everything at this point relies on your ability to understand this combo how to defend against it and how to take advantage of its weaknesses let's start with how it works Zed Casas W and then activates his E which does damage and applies a slow Hill then follow this up with his Q ability trying to land both shuriken Zhan you his goal is to hit you with this combo over and over again until you're low enough on health that he can swap to a shadow and all in you to counter this we have two main goals of our own first as mentioned earlier we want to be positioned with a minion between us and a shuriken this way we take 40% reduced damage second we need to avoid being hit by both shuriken winds that uses his weq combo if he lands both of his Q's it will activate his electrocute rune if you dodge one of the two Q's you will deny his electrocute proc since his living shadow is going to be much closer to you than Zetas you want to focus on dodging Zed's Q and not the shadow Q to avoid tanking both Q's you'll essentially be looking to avoid two abilities at once out ranging Zed zone Q while sidestepping the shadow Q this favors moving diagonally as you'll be creating distance while also sidestepping it also gives you more time to quickly reposition if you see that Zed Q is going to hit you if you were to walk directly backwards you're not sidestepping and lower your chance of dodging now let's get into our own game plan to completely shut down Zed during this phase it involves two main strategies the first strategy is playing around his W ability living shadow which is on an extremely long cooldown of 22 seconds winds ed uses of this ability the shadow will remain in place for five seconds giving him the option of swapping to it you do not want to make the very common mistake of standing near it as it can allows that to all-n you instead you want to wait for the shadow to expire and then immediately turn on the aggression when it does since Ted doesn't have access to his crucial weq combo for 17 seconds once the shadow expires he'll have no way to engage on you this window essentially puts him back to being as weak as he was at levels 1 and 2 and you can punish him in the exact same way the second strategy involves creating recall timings I know this doesn't sound the most exciting but through our research we actually found that over 90% of players lost Lane due to not executing this potent tactic trust me this is a huge deal and you need to master this over and over again we saw how players health bars would get chipped away from Zed's weq combo causing them to run out of sustain setting them up to be easily all end there's a simple trick you can use to completely shut down this tactic by Zed it starts by first keeping track of how many potions you have left once you notice that you have one potion left wait for Zed to use as weq combo then use your remaining potion while waiting for a shadow to expire and healing back up then instead of using this timing window to harass him use your abilities to push the wave fast you won't be able to stop your push since his abilities will be on cooldown once the wave is pushed to his tower we can recall purchasing more items getting back to full health and stacking up on health potions by pushing the wave we give ourselves time to recall without losing any minions and then we get back to lane with an item and sustain advantage while keeping ourselves out of Zeb's all in range before we get into the next chapter I quickly want to mention that if you're not subscribed to our websites Gil Capcom then you are missing out we've now released more than 800 guides which we've spent hundreds of hours perfecting and curating into courses covering the most important topics to start climbing we're so confident in our product you can check out your predicted rank when using the long term and if you don't hit that rank while actively using skill tab you'll be eligible for a full refund so what are you waiting for sign up today to actually start climbing chapter 4 when Zedd takes your lunch money when Zedd has level 6 maze plays for labor the moment he uses ultimate death mark in this section we're going to teach you the ins and outs of houses ultimate works and how to counter it so that you'll no longer be left wondering why you died - Zed will now break down cells attack and our defense starting with Red's attack said ultimate is not only a high damage source but also a gap closer it essentially works by appearing behind your champion leaving a shadow at his previous location which works exactly like his W ability living shadow this marquee for 3 seconds leaving said with a win day to land as much damage as possible during these 3 seconds which we know primarily comes from his skier then once the three seconds expires the death mark would detonate dealing substantial percent damage from the three second death mark tiling which increases the more points he puts into his ultimate to do maximum damage said we'll be looking to land not just two Q's but three as he has his W and our shadows to work with to mimic his initial key to simplify if he lands everything you can just died a hundred - oh like this on top of that he can hop back to either of his shadows by pressing W or R again while the shadows are still up making it really easy for him to disengage and dodge skillshots after with two shadows to choose from now we understand how this ultimate works let's test your mastery for countering that by watching three examples of his old in action while watching try to identify why Zed is dealing higher or lower damage with each ultimate onto the Orianna alright let's break each clip down and find out if you could spot the differences in the first example we saw Orianna survives ads all in with relative ease he may have picked up on how she survived this because it follows the same concept from chapter 3 where we break down how to do it was as weq combo Oriana took way less damage because she dodged two out of three of said skills she was able to do this by positioning with the same movement techniques that we taught earlier but this time during his ultimate your focus will now be on dodging said shadow ukyo instead of his own key as he will now be in melee range thanks to the gap closing with his ultimate with his living shadow has been the farthest away and easiest to dodge now if you don't have a dash to help with this you may need to expend your flash if you feel like you'll die too tanking two or three of the keys in the second example we saw Orianna explode deserts all in this was due to her tanking all three kills one from Zed one from his W shadow and the other from his ultimate shadow as we know sad landing just two cues can do significant damage if he lands all three you're in serious trouble in the third example we saw Orianna take significantly less damage because two Q's past three minions which as we know they're 40% less damage on each q the takeaway here is that minions are still your best friends even when dealing with says : with ultimate now we've truly broken down the importance of daily lives as ki next try to identify why Orion his health ends up at two different amounts between these two examples so that landed the exact same combos with these same items against the Orianna except in one example Oriana had a seeker's armguard which you should have purchased by the times at his level 6 and in the other example Oriana did not have it 100% of the users from our research group not only were recalling a bad times leading to their death but what they bought when they did recall often made them a free kill for zed even if he dodged a cure or even to use you can still get 100 to zero if you're not itemized incorrectly for this reason you'll want to rush early cloth farmers into building a seeker's armguard if you're playing AP and then continue with your original build if you're playing an ad champion then gave a cloth armor on your first base then continue with your standard build converting that cloth armor into ninja tabi later in the lane phase when combining these defenses such as itemizing correctly and proactively dodging sets q on his ultimate you should have your health looking more like this and suddenly making Zed feel way less oppressive and overwhelming to deal with chapter 5 when Zed hunts your teammates now some of you may be thinking that you can deal with Zed in lane by plain defensive at the safety of your tower and survive and instead that the real problem you have is that roaming and killing your teammates don't worry this is one of the most common problems we noticed in players and we're going to break down exactly how to stop this from happening first you need to understand what's Ed's game plan is if he's not able to kill you in Lane due to you playing at the safety of your tower then he's going to shove in the wave and gank a side lane instead even worse is the fact that there's a very common trap assassin to create called the fake roam they will push the wave then pretend as if they're ganking a lane hoping that you follow if you do they spring the trap and kill you this means it's not really possible for you to follow Zedd when he roams due to the threat of him setting up this trap this is starting to look like we have no options hold on though remember from earlier in this guide how when Zeb's w is on cooldown after he uses his w eq combo we want to time our aggression well instead of focusing on landing harass or trading with set during this time we can hard shove the wave into Zed's tower instead while Zetas stuck picking up the wave at the tower this can give us our own opportunity to roam get Ward's down or create the recall timing we mentioned before to stay high on health during the entire laning phase with all these benefits it gives us it crucially keeps ed pinned down at his tower and unable to roam and impact the map if you're not able to take full control over the wave due to being camped by the jungler or falling behind from earlier mistakes then you need to rely on vision to reduce the chances of Zed's roaming being successful to do this it's important to keep up Ward's on both sides of our lane this will help track said when he moves to roam and allow us to back ping our teammates and let them know he's coming sometimes though the enemy might have control wards or a jungler with a sweeping lens that's denying our ability to get meaningful vision in this case put your ward directly in the center of the lane this way when Zed pushes the wave and looks to roam we can see which direction he's headed and back ping our teammates on that side of the map it's through these two strategies pushing in the wave and pinning him down or placing Awards to track him when he roams were able to counters as roaming great now you're armed with everything needed to shut down Zed let's put it all together to see exactly what it should look like in your games set at his weakest levels one two tier we want to get as much of a lead as we can at this moment to help us survive the latest levels to achieve this when we enter the lane we want to immediately damage the minions to get a one minion advantage our next goal is to constantly harass ed whenever he moves in range of our order attacks and abilities remember you'll be positioning yourself with a minion between you and Zed reducing the damage of his key and winning you every trade by doing this you get that low on health while building up a minion advantage would cause a sleigh push towards tower this will allow you to get level two before him and then level three before him this will culminate with a big wave crashing into his tower this is when you rain down her ass on him as he tries to last hit the wave now you are both acquire a health lead and ACS lead heading into level three once set is level three he'll be looking to land his weq combo our goal is to make sure that he doesn't land tikis when he does this as it will activate his electric heat for more damage we achieved this by focusing on dodging jet ski not his shadow his key sends his feather away and gives us more time to dodge by moving diagonally away from him we then wait five seconds for his shadow to expire so that we can swap to it once it's expired we have 17 seconds to turn on the aggression landing poke and harass again it's at this point that Zee will crumble under the pressure with the damage we landed in the earlier levels he'll run out of health pods and desperately need to recall this will result in him losing a wave if he recalls are you killing him if he stays either way you've now won your lane the best part is even if you somehow mess this up you can always use a strategy of hard push in the wave once his W is on cooldown if you notice that you only have one patient left while that is still healthy and has patience of his own wait for him to use his weq combo and the shadow to expire hard push the wave and during this time he cannot fight back with his abilities as they are on cooldown once the wave especially his tower we can recall purchasing more items getting back to full health and stacking up on health potions by successfully executing this early game strategy you will have an important gold and experienced lead on Zed that will make laning against him once his level sags much easier once your love was sex Zed becomes more dangerous we now know how to build early armor against him with the early gold Lee that we've acquired translating into less attack damage for him and more armor for us his W EQ combo doesn't hit us as hard and he can no longer hundred to zero us even if he does old we all know to dodge his keys and he would either a little damage during this phase we follow the same trading patterns wait for that T is his weq combo and then wait for the shadow to expire after five seconds and then we have a 17 second time in window we can use this to go aggressive on Z to poke him down and win trades or we can take the safer route of pushing the wave to pin him into his Tower preventing him from ramming and giving us our opportunity to roam or create a recall timing to stay healthy purchase more items and refill a sustain okay so that brings us to the end of our first skill cap counter guide what did you think of this content type would you like us to do more if so what champion should we cover next also be sure to check out our website to sign up and start climbing the ranks today thanks for watching and we will see you in the next video

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Length: 21min 50sec (1310 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 26 2020