Illaoi with Zed
How to Synergize Illaoi and Zed
based on 2,130 Illaoi with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Zed Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Zed
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Zed
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi 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 Illaoi perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi plays on the same team as Zed, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This difference may indicate that Zed supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Zed on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Illaoi in team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Zed
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top ally for Illaoi that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Zed is a below average ally for Illaoi. By playing on the same team as Illaoi, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 48.2%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Illaoi and Zed that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players must be very careful when arranging Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Illaoi and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your team much support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Illaoi and Zed synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Illaoi and Zed pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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