Zed vs Ornn
How to Beat Ornn as Zed
based on 3,123 Zed vs Ornn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Ornn Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Ornn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ornn as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Ornn
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 Ornn
Try to stay away from walls. Ornn is much less strong if he cannot stun you.
Attack Ornn to keep him from creating items in lane.
Zed vs Ornn Counter Stats
How to Counter Ornn with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several strategic Zed versus Ornn counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ornn’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ornn. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zed often has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Ornn. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Ornn
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Who is Better, Zed or Ornn?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Ornn, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a bad counter to Ornn.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Ornn, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zed into Ornnas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ornn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Ornn matchups, Ornn is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Zed is a terribly counter for Ornn. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Ornn.
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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 Ornn during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats displayed 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 a similar amount of CS relative to Ornn. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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 need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Zed versus Ornn build consist of Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Ornn than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Ornn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Ornn as Zed, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Zed vs Ornn counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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