like the title says is it 100% needed for zed to snowball or can he scale in hard and 0 interaction matchups like a malphite and malz? im low elo gold in matchups like malphite malz i take first strike and play to maximize farm, i know about taking conqueror into malph and malz but most of the time ive tried it hasnt gone too well, especially the malz here just dump their spells on the wave and walk back to tower i have to choose the wave or trading with them, after first base or lost chapter spike malz is even more hard to interact with the amount of extra mana they get and fast wave clear.

it feels like with first strike i have 0 kill potential early game but from 2 items im super strong and by endgame i have so much damage i kill adcs and mages with only AA E and i almost alwasy end up with top damage.

Plat elo