Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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 Mordekaiser 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, Mordekaiser 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 decrease shows that Zed helps Mordekaiser perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Mordekaiser is an ally to Zed, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Zed helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Mordekaiser is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Mordekaiser plays with Zed on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Mordekaiser in teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Mordekaiser that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Zed is a very typical companion for Mordekaiser. By being on the same team as Mordekaiser, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 51.9%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Mordekaiser and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Mordekaiser. That means you need to be cautious when finding Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Mordekaiser players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Mordekaiser and Zed together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Mordekaiser in order to pair well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Mordekaiser and Zed synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Dead Man's Plate, and Riftmaker. When Mordekaiser bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Mordekaiser had an average winrate of 51.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
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