Rammus with Zed
How to Synergize Rammus and Zed
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Rammus Zed Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Zed
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Zed
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus 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, Rammus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Rammus perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rammus tries to synergize with Zed, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Zed supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Rammus plays with Zed on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Rammus in teamfights.
Synergies between Rammus and Zed
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Is Rammus better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best synergy for Rammus that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Zed is a not very good ally for Rammus. By being on the same side as Rammus, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 49.2%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Rammus and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Rammus. That means Rammus players should be cautious when finding Zed teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Rammus and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much AP. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rammus in order to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Rammus and Zed synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Rammus had an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Rammus and Zed pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zed with Rammus are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.