Naafiri with Zed
How to Synergize Naafiri and Zed
based on 372 Naafiri with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Naafiri Zed Synergy Summary
Best Naafiri vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Zed
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Zed
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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.
Naafiri Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Naafiri perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is an ally to Zed, they gets a noticable drop in their complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Zed does not support by providing protection for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Zed on the same team, they usually receives more damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Naafiri in teamfights.
Synergies between Naafiri and Zed
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best champion pairing for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their best synergy. Yet, overall, Zed is a very bad teammate for Naafiri. By locking into the same side as Naafiri, he decreases their win rate by -5.6% to 44.6%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Naafiri and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means you should be very careful when arranging Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Naafiri players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Naafiri and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Naafiri to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Naafiri and Zed synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three finished items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 44.6% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.6% winrate overall.
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