Poppy with Zed
How to Synergize Poppy and Zed
based on 1,885 Poppy with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Zed Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Zed
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Zed
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy plays on the same team as Zed, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Zed provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Zed on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Poppy in team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Zed
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect ally for Poppy that will always be her #1 ally. However, Zed is a very typical companion for Poppy. By playing on the same side as Poppy, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 49.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Poppy and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players need to be careful when enlisting Zed comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Poppy and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Poppy in order to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Poppy and Zed synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy included at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average winrate of 49.4% when playing alongside Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
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