The known assassin is back into TFT as a Tier 4 champion, Zed, knowing how to take out his enemies with his shadows.

Zed marks his target and summons his shadow to deal extra damage, and when the target’s health falls, it deals more damage.

In this article, we will mention the combos to place Zed in, his best items, and how to make sure you take out your enemies with the shadows.

Cut the last breath from them.

Zed is one of the greatest picks in the mid-late game, not just for his huge damage but also because he shares EDM and Crowd Diver traits.

Those traits allow him to deal huge amounts of damage in different ways.

Zed’s stats, traits, and items are all to be discussed down below to make sure you get the best outcome by placing him on your team.

Best Zed builds in TFT Set 10

Zed’s stats:

• Cost: 4 Gold
• Health: 1000 / 1800 / 3240
• Mana: 30 / 50
• Armor: 60
• MR: 60
• Ability Power: 100
• DPS: 71 / 128 / 231
• Damage: 75 / 135 / 243
• Atk Spd: 0.95
• Crit Rate: 25%
• Range: 1

Zed’s traits:

1. EDM

Use the EDM selector item to choose an EDM champion and see the frequency for each.

At the selected champion's frequency, your EDM champions cast the selected Ability with modified effectiveness.

• 2 80% effectiveness
• 3 100% effectiveness
• 4 110% effectiveness, -1 second
• 5 125% effectiveness, -2 seconds

2. Crowd Diver

After Crowd Divers die, they leap onto the furthest enemy, dealing 300 magic damage. Enemies within 1 hex are Stunned for 1.5 seconds.

They also deal bonus damage, increased by 1% each second.

• 2 5% bonus damage
• 4 30% bonus damage
• 6 60% bonus damage

Zed’s ability

 Shadow Dance

Mark the current target and spawn an untargetable Shadow with % of Attack Damage for 4 seconds. After a brief delay or when the marked enemy falls below 15% health, deal additional physical damage.

• Headliner Effect: +300 Health, Zed's Shadows gain +10% AD and +10% AS
• Shadow Attack Damage: 185% / 185% / 370%
• Damage: 350% / 350% / 700%

Carousel priority:

These are the components you would need to focus on since the very first circle in order as you will need them to build up the required items for the team in most of the comps you will find below:

Zed’s best items

1. Bloodthirster

Gain 20% Omnivamp.

Once per combat at 40% Health, gain a 25% maximum Health Shield that lasts up to 5 seconds.

Omnivamp: heal for some of damage dealt

2. Edge of Night

Once per combat: At 60% Health, briefly become untargetable and shed negative effects. Then, gain 15% bonus Attack Speed.

3. Titan’s Resolve

Gain 2% Attack Damage and 2 Ability Power when attacking or taking damage, stacking up to 25 times.

At full stacks, gain 20 Armor and 20 Magic Resist.

Best comps for Zed

3. INTO THE PURPLE

Synergies:

• 5 EDM
• 4 Mosher
• 2 Bruiser
• 2 Dazzler

The main attraction in this comp is Jax, who possesses the EDM attribute and is backed by all of the Mosher champions.

With careful planning, Jax and the others will reach level 3 before this combination rerolls slowly to level 8.

The best squad in this match:

1. Jax is the primary damage dealer on the front lines, sharing the mosher trait to increase his attack speed and omnivamp, and the EDM as the headliner.

2. Sharing the mosher trait, which gives him increased attack speed and omnivamp, Gnar is an excellent tank on the front lines.

3. Zed does a lot of damage due to his Tier 4 EDM status.

4. Sett, who possesses the mosher characteristic, is an extremely powerful tank on the front lines.

5. Posing the Mosher trait, Poppy is an excellent Tier 4.

6. Another Tier 4 EDM member is Zac.

7. To lessen the adversaries' assaults, Bard and Lux both possess the Dazzler trait.

8. With the qualities of both Dazzler and EDM, Lux is an excellent damage dealer in the backlines.

2. BLADES

Synergies:

• 6 Crowd Diver
• 3 K/DA
• 3 Superfan
• 2 True Damage
• 2 Guardian

In this competition, Katarina is the main damage dealer as she is the embodiment of the Crowd Diver attribute.

The main attraction of the tournament is the crowd diver characteristic, which turns the winners into spontaneous killers.

The ideal team for this build is:

First, Katarina, the main damage dealer, has a crowd diver ability that boosts her damage and turns her into an assassin when she dies.

2. As the second crowd diver and a K/DA member, Evelynn is a perfect match for this challenge.

3. As a genuine damage member and rank 5 crowd diver, Qiyana has the ability to eliminate opponents on their back lines.

Kennen makes an excellent tier 1 champion because to his guardian, superfan, and true damage attributes.

5. Yone is a great damage dealer and has the crowd diver trait.

6. Since Lillia is the second K/DA and superfan member, she is a crucial part of this construction.

7. As the third K/DA, Superfan, and guardian member, Neeko is the main tank on the front lines.

8. Tier 4 crowd diver Zed destroys his rivals with his well-known shadows.

1. LEVEL 6 REROLL

Synergies:

• 4 Crowd Diver
• 3 Pentakill
• 3 Edgelord
• 2 True Damage
• 2 Sentinel

In this match, Yone is the main character with the Crowd Diver feature, which increases his damage and, upon death, transforms him into a temporary assassin.

This is a quick reroll to level 8 with a robust economy; be sure to start searching for the main character, Yone, at level 6.

Ideal group for this build:

1. With the edgelord trait, which gives him even more damage and attack speed, Yone is the major damage dealer and the center of attention for crowd divers.

2. As the tier 5 crowd diver member who has also activated the true damage trait, which gives her an abundance of damage, Qiyana is a fantastic choice.

3. Because he possesses both the sentinel and pentakill, making him a semi-tank and damage dealer, Mordekaiser is an excellent choice for the front lines.

4. Zed is an excellent front-line damage dealer with the crowd diver feature enabled.

5. Sharing the edgelord and pentakill with the team is a great fit for Kayle, who can provide some solid damage from the backlines.

6. Because Viego has both the edgelord and pentakill abilities, which let him to do a ton of damage, he is also an excellent fit.

7. As the second sentinel and true damage member, Ekko is an excellent sustainer and damage dealer.

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