Cassiopeia vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Cassiopeia
based on 1,245 Cassiopeia vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cassiopeia vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Cassiopeia vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Cassiopeia
Tips for Playing as Cassiopeia against Zed
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
Cassiopeia vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Cassiopeia in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several valuable Cassiopeia vs. Zed matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed..
Cassiopeia normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Zed. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Cassiopeia and Zed
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Who is Better, Cassiopeia or Zed?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cassiopeia usually fairs equally well when taking on Zed, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Cassiopeia makes an ok counter for Zed.
While Cassiopeia does have a higher winrate than Zed, when on opposite teams, Cassiopeia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Cassiopeia into Zedas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Cassiopeia has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Zed matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Cassiopeia is a decent counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Cassiopeia against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Cassiopeia to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Zed. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Cassiopeia versus Zed build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Cassiopeia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Zed with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Zed as Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Cassiopeia vs Zed matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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