Xayah with Zed
How to Synergize Xayah and Zed
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Xayah Zed Synergy Summary
Best Xayah vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Zed
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Zed
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xayah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Xayah perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xayah plays on the same team as Zed, she observes a little drop in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Zed does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Zed on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Xayah during teamfights.
Synergies between Xayah and Zed
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal synergy for Xayah that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Zed is a not very good teammate for Xayah. By playing on the same side as Xayah, he decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 44.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Xayah and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Xayah. That means Xayah players need to be cautious when lining up Zed comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Xayah and Zed together, you may not be granting your team much AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Xayah to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Xayah and Zed synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 44.8% when playing alongside Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Xayah players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.8% win rate overall.
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