Zed

Figures on this page are from League of Legends patch 16.18.1.

The win, pick, and ban rate figures here are a third-party League of Legends statistics provider's aggregation of match data that originates with Riot Games — Riot doesn't itself publish win-rate statistics. See how it works for the method, including the per-tier noise-width (σ) calibration Should I Dodge publishes on top of that raw data — how far a rate actually sits from meaningless, not something the provider itself measures.

Attack

9 / 10

Defense

2 / 10

Magic

1 / 10

Difficulty

7 / 10

Riot's own handcrafted 1-10 designer ratings, not measured gameplay stats.

Role	Win Rate	Pick Rate
Jungle	47.4%	2.3%
Mid	49.3%	8.2%

About 22.2% of games at this tier see Zed banned before anyone even picks a role — one number for the whole champion, not something that genuinely differs lane to lane. It's shown here alongside Zed's Mid numbers, the highest-pick-rate role, purely because that's the row this page leads with. Why isn't this broken down by role?

Zed's Mid win rate is 0.7 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 (2.3% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.

Zed's Mid Win Rate By Tier

Tier	Win Rate	Pick Rate	Edge (noise-widths)	Clears 0.5σ?
Iron	47.1%	5.7%	0.38σ	No
Bronze	48.2%	7.0%	0.29σ	No
Silver	49.5%	7.8%	0.09σ	No
Gold	49.4%	8.3%	0.12σ	No
Platinum	49.5%	8.6%	0.09σ	No
Emerald	49.7%	8.8%	0.07σ	No
Diamond	49.6%	8.4%	0.10σ	No
Master	50.5%	7.9%	0.11σ	No
Grandmaster	50.8%	7.9%	0.10σ	No
Challenger	51.3%	6.3%	0.11σ	No

Zed's Mid win rate ranges from 47.1% at Iron to 51.3% at Challenger across the 10 of 10 ranked tiers with published data for this role — a 4.2-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.11σ at Challenger and 0.38σ at Iron, with neither clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. See how noise-widths are calculated and what they mean for each rank.

Should I Dodge's curated read has Zed's power curve as an early-game lean — a community-consensus judgment about where the champion's power peaks, not measured win-rate-by-duration data (the stats source doesn't publish that).

Should I Dodge's curated read flags Zed's kit as carrying burst — a community-consensus judgment about what the kit threatens, not measured win-rate data, and the same read behind the counter-build suggestions on the analyzer.

Should I Dodge maintains Zed's scaling lean and kit-threat reads above by hand, one champion at a time, across the whole roster — not generated from the win-rate numbers on this page, and not refreshed automatically when those numbers move.

Who Counters Zed?

Matchups below are for Zed's Mid role -- its highest-pick-rate lane, played in 8.2% of its recorded games at this tier.

Champions That Counter Zed

Champion	Win Rate vs Zed	Edge (noise-widths)
Malphite	56.8%	1.43σ
Nasus	56.8%	1.42σ
Heimerdinger	53.3%	0.69σ
Fizz	52.9%	0.61σ
Irelia	52.8%	0.58σ

Champions Zed Counters

Champion	Win Rate vs Zed	Edge (noise-widths)
Smolder	42.2%	1.63σ
Taliyah	43.7%	1.33σ
Ryze	46.2%	0.80σ
Orianna	46.4%	0.74σ
Mel	46.6%	0.72σ

The stats source lists at most five champions in each direction for Zed: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 4-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.

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Learn more: what a champion win rate actually means and why the same win rate means different things at different tiers.