Once a top champion of League of Legends, Zed now has no place in the current meta. Zed, a cold-assassin general and always a favourite choice of players who like to show their skills and ability to finish off enemies, is also affected by the Meta of Riot Games.
The preseason has brought a lot of changes for players from maps, champions, to the way Riot Games balances everything in the game, making it take a lot of time for players to learn back game. The new changes of Riot Games may help the game become more and more attractive, but besides those balance changes, there are still some things that Riot Games still do not work well in the current meta.
By the end of pre-season 2020, many assassin champions have shown their positions in the current meta. However, Zed – one of the most popular assassins of League of Legends was Dopa badly criticized by the champion weakness and uselessness.
Despite the many reviews, here are the most prominent things that Dopa said about Zed:
- Ah, I think I’m going to play this filthy general again. If you play Zed well, then Zed is fine, but this champion is not strong at all in the current Meta.
- I mean, compare what Zed can do compared to Talon or Qiyana? Nothing, nothing at all. There is no point stronger than the other two champions. If Zed had to choose a point that Zed could be proud of, that would be the laning phase. Before the first few recalls, Zed can farm minions safer than Talon or Qiyana. Just like that!.
- This champion is really rubbish. If you want to climb the rank, this is the first champion that you are not selected. What I really hate about Zed is that Zed doesn’t have the ability to survive. Talon and Fizz both have high survival skills.
In short, Zed is the victim you often see in those highlight videos. Zed is very easy to counter or outplay.
It can be seen that Dopa is one of the role models of Zed players in the world, he has made incredible outplay stages and he is also the reason why Zed returned to League of Legends.
So Dopa’s talk of Zed like that made those who love this champion very frustrated. And what Dopa said is also easy to prove, when Zed is not appearing much on professional tournaments. Famous mid laners like Faker, Caps, Bjergsen, etc. have all removed Zed from their champions. Except for the low elo, Zed is no longer strong anywhere.