Braum with Zed
How to Synergize Braum and Zed
based on 1,597 Braum with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Braum Zed Synergy Summary
Best Braum vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Braum and Zed
Tips for Playing as Braum with Zed
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
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.
Braum Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Braum in LoL
The Braum 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, Braum sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Braum perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Braum is an ally to Zed, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Zed provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Braum is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Braum plays with Zed on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Braum during teamfights.
Synergies between Braum and Zed
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Is Braum better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Braum that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Zed is a terrible ally for Braum. By locking into the same team as Braum, he drops their win rate by -3.1% to 48.3%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Braum and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Braum. That means Braum players should be careful when arranging Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Braum and Zed together, you may not be providing your side much magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Braum in order to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Braum and Zed synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Braum used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zed than with most other common builds. In fact, Braum had an average winrate of 48.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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