Facts About Zed – Zed is one of 18 champions without a single ability power ratio on any ability: Aatrox, Camille, Darius, Draven, Garen, Kalista, Kayn, Kindred, Kled, Olaf, Pyke, Riven, Sett, Talon, Urgot, Vayne, Xayah, Zed.
Zed is voiced by Donny James Lucas.
By coincidence, the name Zed resembles:
- The early English name of Letter Z, from Semitic letter Ṣade, from root ṣ-y-d “hunt” > Arabic صياد ṣayyād, Hebrew צַיָּד ṣayád, etc.”hunter”.
- Hebrew זֵד zed “upstart, villain, scoundrel”, from another root z-y-d “to seethe”.
Zed’s dance was inspired by various martial arts (the animator is a black belt).
Zed is the first champion to not actually ‘die’, instead he drops into a shadow portal (Shockblade Zed disappears after struck by a lightning bolt). The second is Ekko, who rewinds time. Willump does die, but Nunu does not.
Zed, Sona, Garen and Vi were targeted by Jhin in his teaser.
- After Zed was shot, his champion icon on his League of Legends website page and champion list were updated to a gif with with petals blowing past.
Zed is the fifth champion to use energy as a resource for abilities (the others being Akali, Kennen, Lee Sin and Shen).
Before the release of and Galaxy Slayer Zed and Pulsefire Shen, neither him nor Shen reveal their faces in any of their skins, unlike Akali ( All-star, Nurse, Blood Moon) and Kennen ( Karate, M.D.).
Zed and Lucian perform the ‘airplane arms’ run when having very high movement speed.
Razor Shuriken, Living Shadow, and Shadow Slash respectively mirroring Thundering Shuriken, Shadow Dash, and Crescent Slash, as well as Death Mark, Assassin’s Mark, and Mark of the Storm marking their targets reference Zed having been a Kinkou Order member.
- Death Mark was conceived with spawning two Living Shadows and was animated accordingly on release.
- Clicking one of the Living Shadows during Death Marks animation used to display Akali’s portrait. This could only be done while spectating in slow motion as his shadows in an actual game were just simply too fast to be clicked on. It was removed after the new HUD came in 2015 and replaced the old one.
- Zed and his enemy counterpart could theoretically increase their AD infinitely with Reaper of Shadows by alternating killing each other, before it was removed from the game in V9.4.
Zed used to gain the ‘Law of Inverse Ninja Strength’ cosmetic Easter egg debuff (“This unit is a flippin’ ninja!” – “Ninjas are more effective when they work alone. For every Ninja on your team beyond yourself, you lose 1 health.”) when he, Akali, Kennen, and/or Shen found themselves on the same team. It was removed in V3.14 for unknown reasons.
At 23 August 2018 players who selected “Assassin” as their favorite class rated Zed 27% higher than the other assassins as “One of my favorite champions”. This difference is the largest for a champion by class.
Facts About Zed
Zed means “Holy Justice” or “God’s Justice” in Ionian.
- Zed’s original name was Govos, but was changed to Usan “strength of compassion” by Master
Kusho. Zed is the name he chose himself.
- Thus, Zed resembles, form-wise & meaning-wise, Hebrew צדק Ṣedeq “justice, rightness”, from West Semitic ṣdq “to be(come) just, right”.
Zed was born in Kéthé, Ionia.
Zed is using a Forbidden Technique called. He is also using shadow’s tears which are a magical ichor which gives Zed and his followers the ability to use shadow magic— (when tattooed or ingested).
Zed is around 34 to 35 years old.
- Zed is four years younger than Jhin.
Zed appears to be ambidextrous.
Zed was originally considered for the position of the Eye of Twilight before
.
The armor Zed wears in-game is considered his war armor and not what he wears during stealth missions or in his day to day life.
Zed has a rudimentary understanding of healing from performing surgeries and healing magic.
Zed killed Master Kusho to obtain the Tear of the Shadow for the power the Shadow Order members needed to fight back the Noxian army.
Zed kissed Shen’s fiancé, Yevnai, before leaving the Kinkou Order and later killing Master Kusho .
- At one point they secretly harbored feelings for each other even though Kusho forbade Zed from it. Zed later kissed her as a reason to leave the order.
- The engagement of Shen and Yevnai was called off after Zed murdered Kusho.
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