Irelia with Zed
How to Synergize Irelia and Zed
based on 1,878 Irelia with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Zed Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Zed
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Zed
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion 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.
Irelia Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Irelia perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia tries to synergize with Zed, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zed provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Zed on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Irelia during teamfights.
Synergies between Irelia and Zed
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best champion pairing for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Zed is a very bad companion for Irelia. By playing on the same side as Irelia, he lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 45.6%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Irelia and Zed that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players must be careful when arranging Zed comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Irelia and Zed together, you will not be providing your team enough utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Irelia in order to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Irelia and Zed synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Zed than with most other common builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 45.6% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Irelia and Zed pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zed with Irelia are presented for every ranked division. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.