Zed with Braum
How to Synergize Zed and Braum
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Zed Braum Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Braum
Tips for Playing as Zed with Braum
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 Braum Will Play
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
Zed Braum Synergy Stats
How to Play with Braum as Zed in LoL
The Zed Braum synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Braum, 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 Braum. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Braum helps Zed perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Braum, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Braum helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Braum on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Braum. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Braum.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Braum on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Braum does a poor job of covering Zed in teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Braum
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Is Zed better when played alongside Braum?
There is no top champion pairing for Zed that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Braum is a very typical companion for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 48.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Zed and Braum that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Braum has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when lining up Braum allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Zed players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Zed and Braum together, you will not be providing your side a lot of AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Braum ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed to work well with Braum during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Zed and Braum synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Braum than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 48.3% helping carry Braum with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Zed and Braum pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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