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 Vex Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vex sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Vex perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vex is an ally to Zed, they observes a little drop in their full damage output. This may signal that Zed does not help protection for them to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vex is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Vex plays with Zed on the same side, they typically takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Zed does a decent job of covering Vex in team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Vex that will always be their ideal synergy. However, Zed is a very typical companion for Vex. By playing on the same team as Vex, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Vex and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Vex. That means you need to be very careful when finding Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to 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.
Although, by pairing Vex and Zed together, you will not be providing your other teammates much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Vex to pair well 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 lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Vex and Zed synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex incorporated at least these three finished items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Zed than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 47.8% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Vex and Zed pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Zed with Vex are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.