Seraphine vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Seraphine
based on 6,235 Seraphine vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Seraphine vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Seraphine vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Seraphine
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.
Seraphine vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Seraphine in LoL
The stats provided here feature some significant Seraphine against Zed matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zed. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Seraphine usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Zed. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Seraphine and Zed
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Who is Better, Seraphine or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Seraphine usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zed, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Seraphine makes an ok counter to Zed.
While Seraphine does have a lower winrate compared to Zed, when they face off with one another, Seraphine also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Seraphine into Zed.
Moreover, Seraphine also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Seraphine is a somewhat poor counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Seraphine against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Seraphine 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine usually gets less CS compared to Zed. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Seraphine versus Zed build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Seraphine combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Seraphine had an average winrate of 49.7% battling Zed with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Zed as Seraphine, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Seraphine vs Zed counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zed as Seraphine are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.