Azir with Zed
How to Synergize Azir and Zed
based on 499 Azir with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Azir Zed Synergy Summary
Best Azir vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Azir and Zed
Tips for Playing as Azir with Zed
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Azir in LoL
The Azir 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, Azir sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Azir perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Azir plays on the same team as Zed, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could signal that Zed helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Azir is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Azir plays with Zed on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Azir in team fights.
Synergies between Azir and Zed
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Is Azir better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect ally for Azir that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Zed is a relatively poor teammate for Azir. By playing on the same team as Azir, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 48.9%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Azir and Zed that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Azir. That means Azir players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Azir players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Azir and Zed together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Azir to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Azir and Zed synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Zed than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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