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.
The stats provided here feature several influential Zed versus Lillia matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lillia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lillia..
Zed normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Lillia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when playing against Lillia, with a 44.4% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a bad counter to Lillia.
While Zed does have a much lower win rate than Lillia, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zed into Lilliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lillia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Lillia matchups, Lillia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zed is a bad counter for Lillia. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Lillia.
If you would like to truly master Zed to counter Lillia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average accumulates much more CS as Lillia. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Zed versus Lillia build include Axiom Arc, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Lillia than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 44.4% battling Lillia with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Lillia as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Zed vs Lillia battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lillia as Zed are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.