Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some critical Urgot vs. Zed counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Urgot normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Zed. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Urgot usually wins when facing off against Zed, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Urgot makes a good counter for Zed.
While Urgot does have a higher win rate compared to Zed, when facing one another, Urgot also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Urgot into Zedas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Urgot has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often 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 Urgot vs Zed matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Urgot is a decent counter to Zed. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Urgot against Zed.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Urgot to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Zed. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Urgot versus Zed build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Dead Man's Plate. When Urgot included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Zed than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Urgot had an average win rate of 51.2% when countering Zed with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Zed as Urgot, Urgot players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Urgot vs Zed LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.2% winrate overall.
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