Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
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 Ornn 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, Ornn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Ornn perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ornn is paired with Zed, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zed provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Ornn is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Ornn plays with Zed on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Ornn in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Ornn that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Zed is a below average teammate for Ornn. By playing on the same team as Ornn, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 48.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Ornn and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Ornn. That means you should be very careful when arranging Zed allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Ornn and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ornn in order to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Ornn and Zed synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and The Unspoken Parasite. When Ornn included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Zed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ornn had an average win rate of 48.4% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Ornn and Zed pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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