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 Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks 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 worsening shows that Zed helps Fiddlesticks perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Fiddlesticks tries to synergize with Zed, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zed provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Fiddlesticks plays with Zed on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Fiddlesticks in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Fiddlesticks that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Zed is a pretty good teammate for Fiddlesticks. By playing on the same side as Fiddlesticks, he increases their win rate by 1.9% to 50.9%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Fiddlesticks and Zed that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Fiddlesticks. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Fiddlesticks players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Fiddlesticks and Zed together, you may not be providing your other teammates much tankyness. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Fiddlesticks in order to work well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Fiddlesticks and Zed synergy build include Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Zed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Fiddlesticks players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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