Zed with Draven
How to Synergize Zed and Draven
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Zed Draven Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Draven
Tips for Playing as Zed with Draven
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 Draven Will Play
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
Zed Draven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Draven as Zed in LoL
The Zed Draven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Draven, 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 Draven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Draven helps Zed perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Draven, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Draven does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Draven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Draven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Draven.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Draven on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Draven does a decent job of protecting Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Draven
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Is Zed better when played alongside Draven?
There is no ideal companion for Zed that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Draven is a decent companion for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 49.4%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Zed and Draven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Draven has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players should be cautious when enlisting Draven allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Zed and Draven together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Draven 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to work well with Draven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Zed and Draven synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Draven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing alongside Draven with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Zed players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Draven with Zed are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.