Yorick with Zed
How to Synergize Yorick and Zed
based on 2,692 Yorick with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Yorick Zed Synergy Summary
Best Yorick vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Zed
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Zed
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick 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, Yorick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Yorick perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yorick is paired with Zed, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Zed helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Yorick 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 alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Yorick plays with Zed on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Yorick during teamfights.
Synergies between Yorick and Zed
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Yorick that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Zed is a below average companion for Yorick. By locking into the same side as Yorick, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Yorick and Zed that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Yorick. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Zed comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Yorick and Zed together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Yorick in order to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Yorick and Zed synergy build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Yorick and Zed pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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