Alistar with Zed
How to Synergize Alistar and Zed
based on 2,190 Alistar with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Zed Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Zed
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Zed
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
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.
Alistar Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Alistar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is paired with Zed, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This may signal that Zed provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Zed on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Zed
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect companion for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Zed is a relatively poor teammate for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Alistar and Zed that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when finding Zed comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Alistar and Zed together, you may not be providing your other allies enough magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Alistar and Zed synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Alistar and Zed pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zed with Alistar are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.