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Zed A Tier ARAM Mayhem Build

Zed · the Master of Shadows

Assassin 51.37% WR 9.14% PR Patch: 26.10

Damage Dealt +5% Tenacity +20% Energy Regen +20%

Zed is A tier in ARAM: Mayhem patch 26.10 with a 51.37% win rate. This guide covers their ARAM build, augment picks, and Mayhem-specific synergies.

Best Augments for Zed

Jeweled Gauntlet 59.14%

Clown College 57.80%

Upgrade Hubris 55.75%

Executioner 59.74%

Upgrade Collector 56.31%

Goredrink 59.59%

Augment Combos for Zed

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Ethereal Weapon S

Ethereal Weapon makes abilities trigger item effects — feels like old-school Zed.

Back To Basics S

Looks trap, but Zed's damage actually comes from Q and E — skipping R just means losing a dash (intentional).

Upgrade Collector S

Ability-vamp build. No tricks — just secure kills.

Ethereal Weapon A Tech

Abilities trigger the passive. Pair with Ravenous Hydra for old-school vibes.

Executioner C Trap

Executioner only resets cooldowns, not energy. Often you'll get the reset but can't cast anything.

Zed ARAM Mayhem Build & Augments

Mayhem-specific augment picks, synergies, and meta data for Zed in patch 26.10.

Skill Priority

Data date: 20260521

Q>E>W Pick Rate: 39.13% Win Rate: 51.87%

Q W E Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 13.52% Win Rate: 51.99%

E W Q Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 1.88% Win Rate: 52.28%

Q E W Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 1.46% Win Rate: 52.25%

Q>W>E Pick Rate: 25.45% Win Rate: 51.74%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R W W E E Pick Rate: 9.30% Win Rate: 51.76%

Q W E Q Q R Q E Q W R W W W E Pick Rate: 1.10% Win Rate: 51.75%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R E W W E Pick Rate: 0.92% Win Rate: 51.70%

E>Q>W Pick Rate: 12.76% Win Rate: 51.69%

Q W E E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 4.55% Win Rate: 51.74%

E W Q E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.54% Win Rate: 51.88%

Q W E Q E R E E E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.45% Win Rate: 51.71%

Starting Items

Pick Rate: 93.83% Win Rate: 52.18%

Pick Rate: 78.97% Win Rate: 52.67%

Pick Rate: 62.21% Win Rate: 50.39%

Serylda's Grudge

Pick Rate: 42.36% Win Rate: 52.73%

Voltaic Cyclosword

Pick Rate: 32.02% Win Rate: 54.64%

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Pick Rate: 28.71% Win Rate: 48.52%

Mercury's Treads

Pick Rate: 7.89% Win Rate: 48.54%

Boots of Swiftness

Pick Rate: 0.27% Win Rate: 52.96%

Plated Steelcaps

Pick Rate: 1.27% Win Rate: 47.06%

Core Builds

Pick Rate: 15.45% Win Rate: 51.63%

Pick Rate: 14.63% Win Rate: 51.30%

Voltaic Cyclosword

Pick Rate: 6.10% Win Rate: 57.54%

Serylda's Grudge

Pick Rate: 6.03% Win Rate: 54.83%

Pick Rate: 3.67% Win Rate: 50.27%

Late-Game Builds

Guardian's Blade

Pick Rate: 3.63% Win Rate: 54.73%

Guardian's Blade

Pick Rate: 1.75% Win Rate: 55.10%

Caulfield's Warhammer

Pick Rate: 14.47% Win Rate: 51.70%

Pick Rate: 26.60% Win Rate: 51.32%

Pick Rate: 1.72% Win Rate: 53.75%

Best Augments for Zed

Prismatic

Tier + appearance rate

Jeweled Gauntlet

Win rate: 59.14%

Your abilities can now critically strike for (145% + bonus critical damage) damage. Additionally, gain 25% (+ 4.5% per 100 AP) critical strike chance.

If both Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability are equipped, only rolls the critical strike chance of the augment that has the higher critical damage (or either if equal).

Win rate: 57.80%

Gain Shaco Backstab, Deceive and Hallucinate explosion. Replace a summoner spell with Deceive.

Passive - Backstab: Your basic attacks deal 20 to 35 (+ 50% bonus AD) (+ 35% AP) bonus physical damage on-hit when hitting an enemy from behind.

Active - Deceive: Become invisible for up to 3 seconds and blink to the target location within 400 units after a 0.125-second delay. Your next basic attack while in stealth deals 100 (+ 150% bonus AD) (+ 55% AP) bonus physical damage, increased to155 (+ 232.5% bonus AD) (+ 85.25% AP) bonus physical damageif Backstab was applied (45 second cooldown).

Passive - Hallucinate Death: Upon your death, release an explosion in a cr 350 radius of your death location, dealing 25% of target's maximum health true damage to enemies within. Additionally, you deploy a Jack in the Box at the location of your death that instantly fears nearby enemies for 1 second. This box does not attack but lasts for 3 seconds.

Win rate: 59.86%

Become tiny, reducing your size by 75% and gaining 30% bonus movement speed. Additionally, deal 10;15;25;30 bonus damage against enemy champions with greater size than you.

Win rate: 50.69%

Abilities with dashes or blinks gain 175 ability haste.

Kalista is granted 125% bonus attack speed instead.

Win rate: 52.21%

Casting your ultimate ability empowers you for 10 seconds, causing you to gain a shield for 50% of your maximum health, 20% omnivamp, and 30% bonus movement speed for the duration (20 second cooldown).

Transmute: Chaos

Win rate: 59.34%

Gain two completely random augments, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment.

Gold

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 55.75%

Upgrades Hubris, empowering Eminence to heal you for 2.5% (+ 0.5% per stack) maximum health upon being triggered and grant you 10 (+ 5 per stack) bonus movement speed for its duration. Additionally, gain 250 gold.

Win rate: 59.74%

Deal 10% increased damage to enemies below 30% of their maximum health. Scoring a champion takedown resets the cooldown of all your basic abilities.

Win rate: 65.87%

You can no longer be healed by allies and your health regeneration is set to 0. Gain 30% omnivamp.

Win rate: 48.49%

Scoring a takedown against an enemy champion within 3 seconds of damaging them renders you invisible for 1.5 seconds. Attacking or casting abilites ends the stealth immediately.

It's Killing Time

Win rate: 50.62%

Upon casting your ultimate ability, you apply Death Mark to all enemy champions (8 second cooldown). The mark stores 40% of all post-mitigation damage you deal to the affected target, detonating after 5 seconds to deal true damage equal to the damage stored against them.

Transmute: Prismatic

Win rate: 66.81%

Gain one random Prismatic augment, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment.

Silver

Tier + appearance rate

Upgrade Collector

Win rate: 56.31%

Upgrades The Collector, empowering Death to have its execution threshold increased by 0.5% each time you kill an enemy champion, capped at a threshold of 12.5% of the target's maximum health, and Taxes to generate a further 25 gold (total 50 gold) from kills. Additionally, gain 250 gold.

Win rate: 59.59%

Gain 15% omnivamp.

Win rate: 54.58%

Convert all of your ability power into bonus attack damage at a rate of 1 bonus attack damage per 1.66 ability power. Additionally, increase your total attack damage by 15%.

Win rate: 50.45%

Grants 25 bonus attack damage, 10 ability haste, and 5 lethality.

Win rate: 51.25%

Grants the Infernal Dragon Soul, or a different Dragon Soul if you aleady have it.

Wind Beneath Blade

Win rate: 50.23%

Gain 1.5 bonus movement speed per 1 Lethality or flat magic penetration, and 5 bonus movement speed per 10% armor penetration or magic penetration.

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Recent Stats Changes

Recent Snapshots

20260522_092759 • Patch: 26.10 • A ✨ Augment changed: Gold, Silver

Rank: 27 Win: 51.37% Pick: 9.14%

Rank Δ: ↓ -5 Win Rate Δ: -0.26% Pick Rate Δ: -0.13%

Gold +Donation -Final City Transit

Silver +Weighted Popoffs -Blunt Force

20260517_090029 • Patch: 26.10 • S ✨ Augment changed: Prismatic, Gold

Rank: 22 Win: 51.63% Pick: 9.27%

Rank Δ: ↓ -7 Win Rate Δ: -0.26% Pick Rate Δ: -0.18%

Prismatic +Snowball Roulette, Biggest Snowball Ever -King Me, PandorasBox

Gold +Final City Transit -Donation

20260512_082733 • Patch: 26.9 • S

Rank: 15 Win: 51.89% Pick: 9.45%

Rank Δ: ↓ -2 Win Rate Δ: -0.10% Pick Rate Δ: -0.40%

20260504_213411 • Patch: 26.8 • S 🛠 Build changed: Boots ✨ Augment changed: Prismatic

Rank: 13 Win: 51.99% Pick: 9.85%

Prismatic +PandorasBox -Infinite Recursion

20260424_160922 • Patch: 26.8 • S 🛠 Build changed: Boots

Rank: 21 Win: 51.97% Pick: 8.83%

20260413_215021 • Patch: 26.7 • S

Rank: 20 Win: 51.57% Pick: 9.56%

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Jeweled Gauntlet

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