Zed with Gragas
How to Synergize Zed and Gragas
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Zed Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Zed with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Zed Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Zed in LoL
The Zed Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gragas helps Zed perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Gragas, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Gragas helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gragas.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Gragas on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Gragas does a decent job of covering Zed in teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zed that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Gragas is a below average teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he drops their win rate by -3.0% to 45.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Zed and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when arranging Gragas comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Zed and Gragas together, you may not be providing your team a lot of magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gragas teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed to work well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Zed and Gragas synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Zed used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Gragas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 45.4% when playing alongside Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.4% winrate overall.
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