Zed vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Zed
based on 5,015 Zed vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Blitzcrank
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Zed vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some significant Zed versus Blitzcrank counter stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Blitzcrank. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Blitzcrank. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Zed or Blitzcrank?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Blitzcrank, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a bad counter for Blitzcrank.
While Zed does have a lower win rate than Blitzcrank, when facing one another, Zed also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zed into Blitzcrankas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Zed is a bad counter for Blitzcrank. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Blitzcrank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically accumulates much more CS compared to Blitzcrank. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zed versus Blitzcrank build include Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Blitzcrank than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 46.7% battling Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Blitzcrank as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Zed vs Blitzcrank battles, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Blitzcrank as Zed are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.