Zed vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Zed
based on 4,514 Zed vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Zed vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Zed in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several influential Zed vs. Lee Sin counter stats that can help you grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lee Sin..
Zed normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Zed or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes an ok counter for Lee Sin.
While Zed does have a higher winrate than Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. 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 in League of Legends, in Zed vs Lee Sin matchups, Zed is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zed is a decent counter for Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Lee Sin.
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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 Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often picks up much more CS compared to Lee Sin. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Zed versus Lee Sin build include Edge of Night, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Lee Sin than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Lee Sin as Zed, Zed players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Zed vs Lee Sin matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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