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.
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
The Zed Elise synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Elise, 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 Elise. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Elise helps Zed perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Elise, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Elise provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Elise on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Elise. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Elise.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Elise on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Elise does a decent job of protecting Zed in teamfights.
There is no top companion for Zed that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Elise is a very typical companion for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, she decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Zed and Elise that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Elise has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players should be very careful when finding Elise comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Zed players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Zed and Elise together, you probably will not be giving your team enough support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Elise teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to synergize with Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Zed and Elise synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Elise than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Zed and Elise pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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