Volibear with Zed
How to Synergize Volibear and Zed
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Volibear Zed Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Zed
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.
Volibear Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a large worsening in his 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 Volibear perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Volibear is paired with Zed, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Zed helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Volibear plays with Zed on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Volibear during teamfights.
Synergies between Volibear and Zed
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best companion for Volibear that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Zed is a relatively poor teammate for Volibear. By playing on the same side as Volibear, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 46.7%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Volibear and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Volibear. That means Volibear players should be very careful when lining up Zed teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Volibear players should witness 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.
In contrast, by grouping Volibear and Zed together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Volibear to pair well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Volibear and Zed synergy build include Spirit Visage, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Zed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average win rate of 46.7% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Zed with Volibear are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.