Zed with Azir
How to Synergize Zed and Azir
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Zed Azir Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Azir
Tips for Playing as Zed with Azir
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 Azir Will Play
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Zed Azir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Azir as Zed in LoL
The Zed Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Azir helps Zed perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Azir, he observes a noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Azir doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Azir.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Azir on the same team, he often receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Azir does a poor job of protecting Zed in teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Azir?
There is no perfect companion for Zed that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Azir is a very typical companion for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Zed and Azir that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Azir has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means you must be cautious when lining up Azir allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Zed players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Azir together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of cover. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Azir ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed to pair well with Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Zed and Azir synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Azir than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Zed and Azir pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Azir with Zed are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.