Sivir vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Sivir
based on 1,869 Sivir vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sivir vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Sivir vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Sivir
Tips for Playing as Sivir against Zed
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
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.
Sivir vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Sivir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Sivir against Zed counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zed..
Sivir often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zed. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sivir and Zed
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Who is Better, Sivir or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sivir usually fairs equally well when playing against Zed, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Sivir makes an ok counter to Zed.
While Sivir does have a lower win rate compared to Zed, when facing one another, Sivir also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sivir into Zed.
Furthermore, Sivir also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sivir vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sivir is a somewhat poor counter for Zed. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sivir against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sivir in order to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir on average gets a similar amount of CS as Zed. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sivir versus Zed build consist of Kraken Slayer, Immortal Shieldbow, and Navori Quickblades. When Sivir used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Zed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sivir had an average winrate of 49.1% when countering Zed with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Zed as Sivir, Sivir players should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Sivir vs Zed face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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