Zed is melee... and mid... should mean enough.
Every melee mid is a very risky pick if your opponent knows how to play against a melee.
On early levels (pre 3), zed or fizz or whoever will not heavily engage on you and you can auto-attack him constantly. (be aware of the minions though. they can hurt)
If he has to B before he is 3, you can zone very good.
Zed specific has very hard counters like kayle. Zed focusses his damage in his ultimate and if you can negate the damage, you always counter him.
Also Zhonyas Hourglass is a good counter item. You can rush the seekers armguard to get armor up very fast and build it into zhonyas as soon as you got more money.
Next to that... exacly what Mythic said "bait ults, go 2v1 and make use of his low energy regeneration"
For Hexdrinker I must disagree because it only activates and shields on magic damage and zed never deals magic damage by himself. (Only via items or buffs)
The community is indeed the worst one i've ever seen... (euw is the worst) but if you play at night, most kids are asleep and you can play with real people. Welcum to the league of people-who-are-tired-of-kids-that-only-play-to-flame-and-troll
