Annie vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Annie
based on 2,385 Annie vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Annie vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Annie vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Annie
Tips for Playing as Annie against Zed
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Advice to Win Against Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Annie vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Annie in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Annie vs. Zed matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Annie often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Zed. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Annie and Zed
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Who is Better, Annie or Zed?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Annie usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zed, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Annie makes an ok counter to Zed.
While Annie does have a higher win rate compared to Zed, when on opposite teams, Annie also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Annie into Zed.
Moreover, Annie has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Annie vs Zed matchups, Annie is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Annie is a decent counter to Zed. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Annie against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Zed. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Annie versus Zed build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Annie combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Zed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 50.3% battling Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Zed as Annie, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Annie vs Zed counters, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
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