Wukong with Zed
How to Synergize Wukong and Zed
based on 1,119 Wukong with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Wukong Zed Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Zed
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Zed
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong 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, Wukong sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Wukong perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Wukong is an ally to Zed, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zed doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Wukong 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 with Zed.
Moreover, when Wukong plays with Zed on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Wukong during team fights.
Synergies between Wukong and Zed
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best champion pairing for Wukong that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, Zed is a very bad companion for Wukong. By locking into the same side as Wukong, he lowers their win rate by -4.8% to 44.6%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Wukong and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Wukong. That means you must be very careful when arranging Zed comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Wukong players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Wukong and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Wukong to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Wukong and Zed synergy build include Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Wukong boasted an average winrate of 44.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Zed with Wukong are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.