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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stats provided here highlight several critical Zed versus Singed matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Singed’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Singed. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Singed. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Singed, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a bad counter to Singed.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Singed, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zed into Singedas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Singed. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zed is a bad counter for Singed. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Singed.
To truly master Zed to counter Singed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Singed. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zed versus Singed build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Singed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Singed with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Singed as Zed, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zed vs Singed counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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