Kha'Zix vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Kha'Zix
based on 4,192 Kha'Zix vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kha'Zix vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Kha'Zix vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix against Zed
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Kha'Zix in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several significant Kha'Zix against Zed counter stats that can help us explain the differences between the two. Kha'Zix’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kha'Zix may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Kha'Zix often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Zed. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kha'Zix and Zed
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Who is Better, Kha'Zix or Zed?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kha'Zix usually wins when taking on Zed, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Kha'Zix makes a good counter for Zed.
While Kha'Zix does have a higher win rate compared to Zed, when on opposite teams, Kha'Zix also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kha'Zix into Zed.
Moreover, Kha'Zix also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kha'Zix vs Zed matchups, Kha'Zix is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kha'Zix is a decent counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kha'Zix against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kha'Zix in order to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kha'Zix often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Zed. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Kha'Zix versus Zed build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Serylda's Grudge. When Kha'Zix bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Zed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kha'Zix had an average winrate of 51.5% battling Zed with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Zed as Kha'Zix, Kha'Zix players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kha'Zix vs Zed matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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