Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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 Udyr 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, Udyr sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Udyr perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Udyr plays on the same team as Zed, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Zed supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Udyr is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Udyr plays with Zed on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Udyr during teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Udyr that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Zed is a very typical ally for Udyr. By locking into the same team as Udyr, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 49.7%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Udyr and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Udyr. That means Udyr players don't need to be very careful when lining up Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Udyr and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Udyr in order to work well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Udyr and Zed synergy build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Udyr combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Zed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Udyr had an average win rate of 49.7% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Udyr and Zed pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Zed with Udyr are given for all skill levels, merged. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.