Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Lissandra perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra is paired with Zed, she gets a measurable drop in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Zed does not support 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 Lissandra is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Zed on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Lissandra during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Lissandra that will always be her #1 teammate. However, Zed is a very bad companion for Lissandra. By locking into the same side as Lissandra, he decreases their win rate by -3.3% to 46.2%. This shows that there is a terrible synergy between Lissandra and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players need to be cautious when lining up Zed allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Lissandra and Zed together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of cover. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Lissandra in order to work well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Lissandra and Zed synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 46.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Lissandra players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Zed with Lissandra are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.