Mordekaiser vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Mordekaiser
based on 9,124 Mordekaiser vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Mordekaiser vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Mordekaiser vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Mordekaiser against Zed
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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.
Mordekaiser vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Mordekaiser in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several important Mordekaiser versus Zed counter stats that may help you realize the differences between the pair. Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zed..
Mordekaiser typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Zed. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Mordekaiser and Zed
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Who is Better, Mordekaiser or Zed?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Mordekaiser usually wins when playing against Zed, with a 53.2% win rate. As a result, Mordekaiser makes a great counter to Zed.
While Mordekaiser does have a higher win rate compared to Zed, when on opposite teams, Mordekaiser also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Mordekaiser into Zed.
Moreover, Mordekaiser also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Zed matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Mordekaiser is a great counter for Zed. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Mordekaiser against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Mordekaiser in order to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Mordekaiser versus Zed build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Dead Man's Plate, and Liandry's Torment. When Mordekaiser combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Zed than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Mordekaiser boasted an average win rate of 53.2% when countering Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Zed as Mordekaiser, Mordekaiser players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Mordekaiser vs Zed fights, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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