Caitlyn with Zed
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Zed
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Caitlyn Zed Synergy Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Zed
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Zed
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Caitlyn perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Zed, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Zed does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Zed on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Caitlyn in team fights.
Synergies between Caitlyn and Zed
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top champion pairing for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Zed is a relatively poor ally for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 48.0%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Caitlyn and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Zed teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Caitlyn players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Caitlyn and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Caitlyn to pair well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Caitlyn and Zed synergy build include Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 48.0% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Caitlyn and Zed pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Zed with Caitlyn are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.