Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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 Jax 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, Jax 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 decrease shows that Zed helps Jax perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax plays on the same team as Zed, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Zed provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Jax plays with Zed on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Jax in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Jax that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Zed is a below average ally for Jax. By being on the same side as Jax, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 49.1%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Jax and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players must be cautious when arranging Zed teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Jax players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Jax and Zed together, you will not be granting your side enough support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jax to pair well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Jax and Zed synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Jax incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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