Zed·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Zed Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Electrocute as your keystone, followed by Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight 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 Profane Hydra as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Voltaic Cyclosword. For your last 3 items, you should build Serylda's Grudge, Sundered Sky and finish with Axiom Arc. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 51.4% winrate over 3 166 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Electrocute as your keystone, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, and Coup de Grace with Triumph 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 Axiom Arc. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 48.1% win rate across 1 562 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Zed Jungle build in the current patch, try Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, First Strike, Cash Back, Triple Tonic and Cosmic Insight as your primary rune tree, and Cut Down with Legend: Haste as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Profane Hydra as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Voltaic Cyclosword as third item. The last 3 options are Serylda's Grudge, Sundered Sky and Axiom Arc. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 55.3% win rate over 763 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.