Yone vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Yone
based on 8,609 Yone vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yone vs Zed Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Zed as Yone
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.
Yone vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Yone in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Yone versus Zed counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between this set of champs. Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zed..
Yone usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zed. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Yone or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yone usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zed, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Yone makes an ok counter to Zed.
While Yone does have a higher winrate than Zed, when on opposite teams, Yone also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Yone into Zedas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yone vs Zed matchups, Yone is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Yone is a decent counter to Zed. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yone against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yone 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Zed. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Yone versus Zed build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Zed than with most other common builds. In fact, Yone had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing against Zed with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Zed as Yone, Yone players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Yone vs Zed battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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