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 shown on this page show some vital Zed versus Yuumi counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yuumi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Yuumi. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Zed often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Yuumi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually wins when playing against Yuumi, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a good counter to Yuumi.
While Zed does have a higher winrate than Yuumi, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zed into Yuumias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yuumi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Yuumi matchups, Zed is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zed is an above average counter to Yuumi. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Yuumi.
To truly master Zed in order to counter Yuumi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed often accumulates much more CS relative to Yuumi. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Zed versus Yuumi build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Yuumi than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when countering Yuumi with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Yuumi as Zed, Zed players should take 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 combinations that we analyzed for Zed vs Yuumi clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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