Zed with Akali
How to Synergize Zed and Akali
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Zed Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Akali
Tips for Playing as Zed with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Zed Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Zed in LoL
The Zed Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Zed perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed plays on the same team as Akali, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Akali helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Akali on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Zed during team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Akali?
There is no perfect synergy for Zed that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Akali is a below average teammate for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, she decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 47.2%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Zed and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Akali allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Akali together, you will not be granting your team enough utility. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali teammate, 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to work well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Zed and Akali synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Zed incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Akali with Zed are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.