Zed·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Zed Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Future's Market and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, as well as Scorch and Transcendence in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Eclipse as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Voltaic Cyclosword. For your last 3 items, you should build Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge and finish with Axiom Arc. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 55.0% winrate over 1 188 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Zed Top build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Electrocute as your keystone, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, and Scorch with Transcendence in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Eclipse, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and Voltaic Cyclosword as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge and Axiom Arc. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 51.5% win rate over 406 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Nimbus Cloak with Transcendence in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Eclipse as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Voltaic Cyclosword as a third item. You want to finish the build with Serylda's Grudge, Edge of Night and Profane Hydra. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 60.7% win rate across 145 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Zed Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Scorch with Transcendence as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Voltaic Cyclosword as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Eclipse as third item. The last 3 options are Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge and Youmuu's Ghostblade. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 43.1% win rate over 65 matches played.

Situational Zed Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Zed build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.