Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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 Morgana 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, Morgana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Morgana perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Morgana plays on the same team as Zed, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Zed supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Morgana is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Morgana plays with Zed on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Morgana during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Morgana that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, Zed is a relatively poor ally for Morgana. By being on the same side as Morgana, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 49.1%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Morgana and Zed that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Morgana. That means Morgana players should be very careful when enlisting Zed comrades to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Morgana and Zed together, you may not be granting your other allies very much protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Morgana in order to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Morgana and Zed synergy build include Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Zed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Morgana boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Zed with Morgana are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.