Cassiopeia with Zed
How to Synergize Cassiopeia and Zed
based on 612 Cassiopeia with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cassiopeia Zed Synergy Summary
Best Cassiopeia vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cassiopeia and Zed
Tips for Playing as Cassiopeia with Zed
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
Cassiopeia Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Cassiopeia in LoL
The Cassiopeia 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, Cassiopeia 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 fall shows that Zed helps Cassiopeia perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cassiopeia plays on the same team as Zed, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Zed helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Cassiopeia 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 alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Cassiopeia plays with Zed on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Cassiopeia during teamfights.
Synergies between Cassiopeia and Zed
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Is Cassiopeia better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Cassiopeia that will always be her best teammate. However, Zed is a relatively poor ally for Cassiopeia. By playing on the same team as Cassiopeia, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 49.0%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Cassiopeia and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a much lower diffuclty than Cassiopeia. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Cassiopeia and Zed together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of tankyness. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia in order to synergize with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Cassiopeia and Zed synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Cosmic Drive. When Cassiopeia included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Cassiopeia and Zed pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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