Nami with Zed
How to Synergize Nami and Zed
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Nami Zed Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Zed
Tips for Playing as Nami with Zed
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Nami in LoL
The Nami 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, Nami sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Nami perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami is an ally to Zed, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Zed provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Zed on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Nami in teamfights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal companion for Nami that will always be her ideal synergy. However, Zed is a not very good companion for Nami. By locking into the same side as Nami, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 46.9%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Nami and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players should be careful when finding Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nami players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Nami and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your team very much engage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nami to work well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Nami and Zed synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami included at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 46.9% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Nami players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Zed with Nami are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.