Zed/SkinsTrivia

Champion	Ability Details	Background	Strategy	Skins & Trivia

Skins Edit

Zed's ultimate was changed before release to create only one shadow. Forum post by Scarizard It originally created two and is still animated for two.
Zed was designed by CertainlyT and Samizul.^[1]
Zed is the 1st champion whose death animation shows him escaping (via a shadow portal), rather than actually dying. Whether he actually manages to cheat death remains open to debate. A video can be seen here.
- Also his Shockblade skin has a different animation. Instead of crawling into a shadow portal, a bolt of lightning strikes him and he disappears. A video can be seen here.
Zed is the 5th champion to utilize energy as a resource.
Zed is one of the 8 champions who do not have a single skill that scales off ability power, along with Darius, Draven, Garen, Olaf, Riven, Talon and Vayne.
Zed switches his running animation into Airplane Arms, seen here when moving at a high movement speed (such as using Ghost)
- The Airplane Arms animation is also activated when Zed is affected by an ally's Captain-enchanted boots, suggesting that any temporary speed buff will change his running animation.
Zed is the third dark-themed Ionian Champion along with Syndra and Varus.

Zed bears some resemblance to the Shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, namely Shredder's later designs where his face cannot be seen and his facemask is a grill-like kenpo.
- Zed also serves as an antagonistic role to a group of ninjas in his backstory.
Zed has similar powers over shadows and looks similar to Noob Saibot from the Mortal Kombat series.
Zed also bears some resemblance to Lord Zedd from the Power Rangers franchise, mainly due to the name and similarities in the mask.
Zed's Shockblade skin bears some resemblance to Storm Shadow from the G.I. Joe franchise.
Zed's dance is inspired by various martial arts. The animator that formed the idea is a black belt.[1]
Zed's name is similar to the name of the antagonist organization from the classic Genesis Shinobi series, where the organization is known as "Zeed" and later "Neo Zeed". Furthermore, in the game "Revenge of Shinobi", Neo Zeed kills the protagonist's master.
Shockblade Zed's blades are likley a refrence to the hidden blades from Assassin's Creed
- This is especially shown in a critical stike when the blades retract into his sleeves after the attack

Zed and Shen were taught under the same master, Shen's father, and were rivals to one another.
Zed would later murder Shen's father and establish a new ninja order, the Order of the Shadow.
- In "G.I. Joe: The rise of cobra" There were two ninjas (Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow) who were under "Hard Master's" supervision and were learning martial arts, both were adopted. Then suddenly, one of them, Storm Shadow, felt like Master was giving to much attention to his other student and killed his master when he was not ready to defend, and then ran away unchased. This might be a reference to two skins that Zed has and might also be that someone is trynig to compare Shen to Snake Eyes and Zed to Storm Shadow who just like Zed killed his father (master).
Zed seeks to abolish the old ways of balance and replace them with the forbidden art of the shadow. Any ninja who refuses to learn will be eliminated.
According to Runaan, Akali may have some former connection to Zed. What that connection was has yet to be elaborated on.^[2]