Domination
Dark Harvest
Empowered Attack
Tyrant
By GamGem ResearchLast updated 25 Sept 2026
Zed
the Master of Shadows
Assassin
Patch 7.3 · Mid · Ranked · Sample · No public API · 41,531 games · Sample data
Role snapshot (Mid)
BTier
- Win Rate
- 50.5%
- Pick Rate
- 14.5%
- Ban Rate
- 0.5%
41,531
Games
Very High
Confidence
Popular build
19,104 games50.9%Win Rate
Flash
IgniteReliable build
13,705 games49.6%Win Rate
Flash
GhostHigh observed win rate
4,984 games53.0%Win Rate
Flash
BarrierRunes
Resolve
Perseverance
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Zed's most common path.
QRazor Shuriken
WLiving Shadow
EShadow Slash
RDeath Mark
Max Order
QWE
Max Q first, then W, then E. Take R whenever available (5 / 9 / 13).
Level-up Order
- QRazor Shuriken
- WLiving Shadow
- EShadow Slash
- RDeath Mark
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QRazor Shuriken | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||
| WLiving Shadow | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||
| EShadow Slash | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||
| RDeath Mark | R | R | R |
Matchup map (Mid)
How Zed performs against enemy mid laners
Levels 1 – 15 · Sample40%60%Zed's win rate
Conditional build matrix
Recommended items by enemy team composition
Sample · Patch 7.3
Core 1First major item
Core 2Second item
Core 3Third item
BootsBoot slot
SituationalPick as needed
Scaling — level 1–15
ZedMid average
1815
1815
1815
Counter plan — how to beat Zed
Deny the reset — it wants a kill to come back out; a warded exit removes it
Punish the cooldown — Zed is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit high difficulty, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
Trade on your terms — take the fight where its damage lands on nobody
Ability details
PContempt for the Weak
Passive — never cast
- Q
Razor Shuriken
- W
Living Shadow
- E
Shadow Slash
- R
Death Mark
ARAM performance
A
- Win Rate
- 53.2%
- ▲ 0.5%
- Pick Rate
- 1.3%
- ▲ 6.2%
- Ban Rate
- 5.9%
- ▲ 0.7%
Best ARAM build
Patch timeline
We hold the rates, not the balance log. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
- 7.3Live now-0.4
- 7.2eSample win rate across this patch+1.2
- 7.2Sample win rate across this patch-0.6
- 7.1hSample win rate across this patch+1.0
- 7.1Sample win rate across this patch-0.9
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Methodology
- Data window
- 286,420 games on patch 7.3, Ranked, No public API. Last refreshed 25 Sept 2026.
- Rank aggregation
- No rank split. A derived sample has no brackets to pool, so none is claimed — the rates are the same sample at every rank.
- Role assignment
- A champion is filed under the lanes it actually plays, not the one class it belongs to — which is why several appear in two.
- Counters
- A matchup, not a tier gap: how this champion does into that one specifically, over that pairing’s own games.
- Minimum sample
- The confidence indicator beside every rate is driven by how much of the window this champion appears in. A low reading means read the figure loosely, not that it is wrong.
- Why a build is not a cause
- The best-scoring build is the one the best-placed players happened to take. Correlation is what a rate can show; it is not evidence that buying those items caused the wins.
- Where the numbers come from
- Names, titles, classes, difficulty and ability names are read off Riot's official Wild Rift site. Lanes are this site's filing; items and runes are Wild Rift's patch 7.3 shop and rune tree. Every rate is a derived sample — Riot publishes no Wild Rift API, and nothing on this page presents one as measured.