Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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 Trundle 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, Trundle sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Trundle perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Trundle is paired with Zed, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Zed provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Trundle is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Trundle plays with Zed on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Trundle in team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Trundle that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Zed is a very bad companion for Trundle. By playing on the same team as Trundle, he drops their win rate by -3.4% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Trundle and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Trundle. That means you must be careful when arranging Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Trundle players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Trundle and Zed together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Trundle to pair well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Trundle and Zed synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Trundle bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Zed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Trundle had an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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