Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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 Anivia Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Anivia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Anivia perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Anivia is paired with Zed, she observes a moderate decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zed does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Anivia is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Anivia plays with Zed on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Anivia in team fights.
There is no top companion for Anivia that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Zed is a very typical companion for Anivia. By being on the same side as Anivia, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 51.7%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Anivia and Zed that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zed has a much lower diffuclty than Anivia. That means Anivia players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zed allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Anivia and Zed together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much tankyness. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Anivia to work well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Anivia and Zed synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Anivia combined at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other common item sets. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 51.7% helping carry Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Anivia players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Anivia and Zed pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Zed with Anivia are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.