Zed with Brand
How to Synergize Zed and Brand
based on 9,179 Zed with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Brand
Tips for Playing as Zed with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Zed Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Zed in LoL
The Zed Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Brand helps Zed perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Brand, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This could signal that Brand helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Brand.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Brand on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Brand?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Zed that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Brand is a fantastic companion for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he raises their win rate by 3.0% to 51.4%. This proves that there is an important synergy between Zed and Brand that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Brand comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Zed players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zed and Brand together, you may not be granting your side enough protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Brand ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Zed in order to work well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Zed and Brand synergy build include Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Brand than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 51.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.4% win rate overall.
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