Zed
Computed from 206,809 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Jungle | 47.4% | 1.8% |
| Mid | 49.4% | 6.5% |
Zed is banned in about 17.6% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Zed's Mid win rate is 0.6 percentage points below an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Zed is tracked in 2 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Mid — its numbers in Jungle (1.8% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Zed's Mid Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.21, Zed's most common Mid setup runs Flash and Ignite with First Strike, maxes Q first, and builds Voltaic Cyclosword, Bastionbreaker, and Edge of Night — 50.0% win rate over 57,316 games.
- Summoner spells
Flash + Ignite
50.0%48,218 games - Runes
First Strike + Precision
51.8%19,237 games - Skill priority Q > E > W 50.2%56,035 games
- Starter
Doran's Blade + Health Potion
50.5%28,318 games - Boots
Gluttonous Greaves
52.6%4,931 games - First three items
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Edge of Night
58.6%2,706 games
Zed's Mid Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 48.3% | 5.4% | 12,138 | 0.22σ | No |
| Bronze | 48.7% | 5.9% | 16,552 | 0.22σ | No |
| Silver | 48.7% | 6.3% | 22,173 | 0.23σ | No |
| Gold | 49.8% | 6.6% | 26,180 | 0.04σ | No |
| Platinum | 49.7% | 7.0% | 30,165 | 0.07σ | No |
| Emerald | 50.1% | 7.1% | 24,470 | 0.03σ | No |
| Diamond | 49.6% | 6.9% | 21,920 | 0.08σ | No |
| Master | 50.2% | 6.5% | 9,929 | 0.04σ | No |
| Grandmaster | 49.7% | 5.9% | 546 | 0.03σ | No |
Zed's Mid win rate ranges from 48.3% at Iron to 50.2% at Master across the 9 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 1.9-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.04σ at Master and 0.22σ at Iron, with neither clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. 1 tier under 200 games not shown.
- Power curve
- Early game
- Threats
- Burst
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Zed in Mid?
Champions That Counter Zed
| Champion | Win Rate vs Zed | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Master Yi |
58.5% | 1.78σ |
Riven |
56.1% | 1.28σ |
Fiddlesticks |
56.1% | 1.27σ |
Briar |
56.0% | 1.25σ |
Malphite |
55.8% | 1.21σ |
Champions Zed Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Zed | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Smolder |
40.3% | 2.04σ |
Twitch |
41.2% | 1.84σ |
Nautilus |
42.3% | 1.62σ |
Aphelios |
42.3% | 1.60σ |
Aatrox |
42.7% | 1.54σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Zed: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 3-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.