Zed with Darius
How to Synergize Zed and Darius
based on 4,069 Zed with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Darius
Tips for Playing as Zed with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Zed Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Zed in LoL
The Zed Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Darius helps Zed perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Darius, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Darius does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Darius.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Darius on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Darius does a decent job of protecting Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Darius?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Zed that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Darius is a below average ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Zed and Darius that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Darius allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Zed and Darius together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Darius ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to work well with Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Zed and Darius synergy build include Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Darius than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when playing alongside Darius with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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