Top · 74 games · NA

Zed

Top · 12% of games Mid · 76%Jungle · 10%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+211 gold).

Win rate: 40.5%; ±11.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: D; #73 of 77
Pick rate: 1.2%; ban 23.3%
Games: 74; ranked solo/duo

Zed top wins 40.5% of 74 ranked games in NA, rank 73 of 77 top champions (tier D). Most players finish Voltaic Cyclosword first, at about 10:36.

The build at a glance

What most Zed players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Voltaic Cyclosword 10:56 · 48% · 34 games

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 13:12 · 73% of games

Item 2

Bastionbreaker 18:48 · 91% · 29 games

Item 3 · late game

Lord Dominik's Regards 24:54 · 16 of 48 games

Item 4 · late game

Edge of Night 28:06 · 6 of 28 games

Runes

First Strike · Inspiration + Precision 20% of games · 53% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 65% of games · 44% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 58% of games · 42% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Razor Shuriken first 100% of games · 41% wins Skill orders →

When Zed wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′46% wins32% of games · 24

Lasts 25′ or more38% wins64% of games · 47

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Zed games

First tower: 70% against 17%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First tower 17% 70% +53

First Baron 27% 73% +46

Rift Herald 29% 64% +35

First blood 33% 52% +19

First Voidgrubs 34% 48% +14

First dragon 36% 45% +9

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Zed plays

Fewer control wards, more multikills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer control wards a game0.28 against 0.45 · −38%

More multikills a game0.51 against 0.42 · +21%

More damage a minute903 against 780 · +16%

Less vision a minute0.69 against 0.81 · −15%

Fewer assists a game4.7 against 5.3 · −12%

About average: minions, kill participation.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~10:36

Item 2done ~18:30

Item 3done ~24:30

Item 4done ~28:06

Most common full builds

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Voltaic Cyclosword › Bastionbreaker › Serylda's Grudge 33.3%6 games

Voltaic Cyclosword › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Bastionbreaker › Lord Dominik's Regards 66.7%6 games

Eclipse › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Voltaic Cyclosword › Lord Dominik's Regards 20.0%5 games

Eclipse › Voltaic Cyclosword › Mercury's Treads › Serylda's Grudge 50.0%4 games

Voltaic Cyclosword › Bastionbreaker › Mercury's Treads › Serpent's Fang 66.7%3 games

Bastionbreaker › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Voltaic Cyclosword › Lord Dominik's Regards 0.0%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Serpent's Fang 80%5

Bastionbreaker 67%12

Lord Dominik's Regards 50%12

Voltaic Cyclosword 33%15

Endless Hunger 29%7

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion43.8%48

Doran's Shield + Health Potion38.5%13

Long Sword + Refillable Potion33.3%9

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~13:1244.4%54

Mercury's Treads ~19:4814.3%7

Gluttonous Greaves ~18:4825.0%4

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite41.9%43

Flash + Teleport43.5%23

Exhaust + Flash20.0%5

Skills

Max

W40.5%74

Start

E37.5%48

Start

W48.0%25

Dies about as often as most top laners

Before 14 minutes Zed dies 2.1 times a game (average 2.4). 40% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 39% for the average top laner. 53% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.1deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.4)

40%involve the enemy junglerabout average (39%)

47%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (48%)

87%with no teammate nearmore than average (83%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Zed dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

Ganks: 49% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 45% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 62% in your half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average top laner

What kills Zed

Kind of death

Zed Average

Gank 40% (avg 39%)Collapse 7% (avg 9%)1-v-1 53% (avg 52%)

Who gets the kill

Zed Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 1%)Jungler 28% (avg 24%)Support 2% (avg 2%)Mid laner 6% (avg 7%)Top laner 63% (avg 64%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 7:00, then every minute

Zed Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 7:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Zed; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Zed wins fights

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.0 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.6 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Your half of top lane 0.6 K/D 54 / 88

Their half of top lane 1.0 K/D 49 / 50

The top-side river 1.0 K/D 11 / 11

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Zed wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 15% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 55% when Zed is there and 63% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 17:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Zed it is 32% against 44%.

Zed

What most Zed players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First tower: 70% against 17%

Fewer control wards, more multikills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Zed's games

Dies about as often as most top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Zed

Ganks come at 3:00 and 7:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of top lane

Where fights happen