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 Qiyana 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, Qiyana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Qiyana perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Qiyana tries to synergize with Zed, she sees a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Zed does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Qiyana is played with Zed on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Qiyana plays with Zed on the same team, she on average receives significantly more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Qiyana during team fights.
There is no one best ally for Qiyana that will always be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Zed is a decent ally for Qiyana. By being on the same team as Qiyana, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Qiyana and Zed that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Qiyana. That means Qiyana players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Qiyana players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Qiyana and Zed together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of engage potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Qiyana to synergize with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Qiyana and Zed synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Qiyana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Zed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Qiyana had an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
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