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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some valuable Zed versus Rumble counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rumble’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rumble..
Zed usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rumble. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Rumble, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a poor counter to Rumble.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Rumble, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Rumbleas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This 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 Zed vs Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champion with a 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 somewhat poor counter for Rumble. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zed against Rumble.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Rumble during both the early game 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 stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Rumble. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zed versus Rumble build include Edge of Night, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Rumble than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Rumble with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Rumble as Zed, you should take 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 sets players picked for Zed vs Rumble clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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