Zed
Hardest matchups for Zed in Mid (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Singed, 
Heimerdinger, 
Gwen. Easiest: 
Ezreal, 
Lucian, 
Smolder.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into ZedOn the pro tier list
Zed on patch 16.22
- Mid50.4%#37 of 91B18,405 games
- Jungle47.4%#72 of 74C5,413 games
- steady since 16.21
Zed’s main role on patch 16.22 is Mid: a 50.4% win rate across 18,405 Emerald games, #37 of 91 Mid champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 7.4% of games. Zed is also played Jungle: a 47.4% win rate across 5,413 games, #72 of 74. Since patch 16.21, Zed Mid has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.3 points across 114,100 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid69% of its games | A | 50.6%50.6% raw ±0.4 | 50,056 | 7.1%20.9% banned | 52.1%44.9% first time |
| Jungle22% of its games | C | 48.3%48.2% raw ±0.8 | 16,189 | 2.3%20.9% banned | 50.6%44.1% first time |
| Top6% of its games | S | 52.7%53.3% raw ±1.5 | 4,482 | 0.6%21.0% banned | 53.0%47.0% first time |
| Bot2% of its games | S | 52.9%55.1% raw ±2.8 | 1,267 | 0.2%21.0% banned | 53.3%48.2% first time |
| Support1% of its games | D | 46.9%43.5% raw ±3.3 | 872 | 0.1%20.9% banned | 50.0%47.0% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Zed’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Zed, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Zed
Lane leads and team bans
What Zed’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Zed than the other team does in the same games (345,967 games). The other team banned before Zed was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Zed was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Zed is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Lethality
52.5%40,186 games - AD bruiser
49.3%9,271 games - Crit
49.9%515 games - On-hit
51.8%4 games - Tank
51.8%2 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Zed does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
53,370 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Ignite50.6% · 46,756 games
First StrikeInspiration + Precision · 52.1%
Cash Back · Triple Tonic · Jack Of All Trades · Legend: Haste · Cut DownShards: Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Doran's Blade + Health Potion · 51.8%
Key items: Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker · 53.3%
Boots: Gluttonous Greaves · 54.6%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Ignite50.6%46,756 games · 88% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Flash + Teleport50.6%5,387 games · 10% pick rate · same players: −1.4 pts vs the usual
Keystones
- First Strike + Precision52.1%30,559 games · 57% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
First Strike + Sorcery53.8%1,273 games · 2.4% pick rate · same players: −0.1 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Electrocute + Precision47.0%4,314 games · 8.1% pick rate · same players: −0.7 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended- Electrocute + Sorcery47.5%9,140 games · 17% pick rate · same players: −2.0 pts vs the usual
Minor runes with First Strike
- Cash Back52.3%99% take it
- Triple Tonic52.3%99% take it
- Jack Of All Trades52.6%65% take it
Cosmic Insight51.7%35% take it
- Legend: Haste52.1%98% take it
- Cut Down52.2%97% take it
Presence of Mind49.9%2.4% take it
- Adaptive Force50.6%95% take it
- Ability Haste50.6%2.7% take it
- Attack Speed48.9%2.6% take it
- Adaptive Force50.6%99% take it
- Health51.4%20% take it
- Health Scaling50.4%78% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Zed’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Zed’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Zed does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Zed wins 45.5%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.5%. That gap ranks it 42 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 200K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Zed in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle | 49.4%1W 5L | 0%0% in any lane | 83% counter | +233 gold | — |
| Mid | 49.8%1W 2L | 0%0% in any lane | 100% counter | −1,186 gold | — |
| Top | 49.8%0W 1L | 0%0% in any lane | 100% counter | −349 gold | — |
How much knowing Zed pays
Players on their Mastery band win 7.0 points more on Zed than first-timers do: #42 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Zed players win 52.5%: #83 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 57.3% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
ZedDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Zed ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Fizz, Ahri, LeBlanc.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.