1Thread the Needle
GoldGain 18% 
Armor Penetration and 
Magic Penetration.
BARAM: Mayhem · Patch 16.20ZedARAM: Mayhem build
the Master of Shadows
- ARAM: Mayhem rank
- #47 / 173
- Top augment
- Thread the Needle
Tier B
It's Killing Time · Recursion
Zed best augments
All augments →1
2It's Killing Time
GoldAfter casting your Ultimate, mark all enemies and store up damage you deal to them. When it ends, detonate the damage.
3Recursion
GoldGain 60 Ability Haste.
4Blunt Force
SilverGain 
20% Attack Damage.
5Tooth Fairy
GoldBursting enemies drops Teeth. Picking up Teeth grants you permanent Lethality and Magic Penetration.
6Nightstalking
GoldTakedowns against enemy champions within 3 seconds of damaging them grants you Movement Speed and renders you invisible.
7Transmute: Prismatic
GoldGain a random 
Prismatic Augment.
8Jeweled Gauntlet
PrismaticYour Abilities can Critically Strike.
Gain 
25% (+4.5% per 100 AP) Crit Chance.
9Clown College
PrismaticGain Deceive Summoner Spell. Gain Backstab Passive. When you die, deal a large amount of true damage and Fear nearby enemies.
10Upgrade Collector
SilverExecuting enemies with The Collector's Passive increases its execute threshold and grants bonus Gold. Gain 250 Gold.
Augment order comes from OP.GG. Runes, items and skill order below come from regular ARAM games on the same map.
Recommended Zed build
Most played and most reliable choicesRunes
Spells
Skill priority
Q
E
WStart
Boots
Core
Zed runes
44.0% WR30.3% pick18,987 games
Domination
Precision
44.7% WR26.9% pick16,864 games
44.9% WR18.2% pick11,390 games
45.3% WR0.8% pick486 games
Zed skill order
47.9% WR62.7% pick29,913 games
Q123456789101112131415W123456789101112131415E123456789101112131415
R123456789101112131415Zed summoner spells
45.6% WR81.5% pick49,997 games
45.6% WR12.1% pick7,398 games
Power curve
Scales into the late game
44.7
49.6
50.7
51.0
50.0
Win rate (%) by game length in minutes. Dashed line = 50%.
Zed items
First three completed items48.2%
10.5% · 5,617 games
41.4%
4.9% · 2,611 games
44.1%
3.0% · 1,581 games
41.3%
2.6% · 1,403 games
53.4%
2.3% · 1,224 games
Start45.2%
32.4% · 19,665 games
Start44.6%
15.1% · 9,148 games
Boots44.7%
69.6% · 35,830 games
Boots45.8%
21.3% · 10,985 games
Boots53.5%
5.1% · 2,606 games
Zed situational items
How often each item ends up in the final buildAxiom Arc62.4% · 46.8%Hubris60.8% · 46.0%
The Collector53.3% · 43.5%Voltaic Cyclosword51.5% · 48.9%
Eclipse41.0% · 45.9%
Serylda's Grudge33.2% · 48.0%
Edge of Night23.3% · 48.5%Serrated Dirk11.8% · 43.4%
Serpent's Fang10.3% · 46.7%
Maw of Malmortius9.2% · 49.4%
Profane Hydra4.9% · 48.7%
Black Cleaver4.2% · 47.3%
Lord Dominik's Regards3.2% · 51.1%
Youmuu's Ghostblade3.1% · 50.2%
Endless Hunger2.6% · 58.4%
Death's Dance2.1% · 53.9%Zed abilities
PassiveContempt for the Weak
Zed's basic attacks against low health targets deals bonus Magic Damage. This effect can only occur once every few seconds against the same enemy champion.
QRazor Shuriken
Zed and his shadows throw their shurikens. Each shuriken deals damage to every enemy hit.
Cooldown: 6s · Cost: 75/70/65/60/55WLiving Shadow
Passive: Zed gains energy whenever he and his shadows strike an enemy with the same ability. Energy can only be gained once per cast ability. Active: Zed's shadow dashes forward, remaining in place for a few seconds. Reactivating Living Shadow will cause Zed to switch positions with this shadow.
Cooldown: 20/19/18/17/16s · Cost: 40/35/30/25/20EShadow Slash
Zed and his Shadows slash, dealing damage to nearby enemies. Enemies hit by a Shadow's slash are slowed.
Cooldown: 5/4.5/4/3.5/3s · Cost: 40RDeath Mark
Zed becomes untargetable and dashes to an enemy champion, marking them. After 3 seconds the mark triggers, repeating a portion of all the damage Zed dealt to the target while they were marked.
Cooldown: 120/110/100s