Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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 Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Lee Sin perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lee Sin is paired with Zed, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Zed doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Lee Sin plays with Zed on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Lee Sin during team fights.
There is no top ally for Lee Sin that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Zed is a below average ally for Lee Sin. By being on the same side as Lee Sin, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 44.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Lee Sin and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Lee Sin. That means Lee Sin players must be cautious when enlisting Zed allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Lee Sin players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Lee Sin and Zed together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin in order to pair well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Lee Sin and Zed synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 44.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Lee Sin and Zed pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.9% win rate overall.
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