Zed with Jarvan IV
How to Synergize Zed and Jarvan IV
based on 1,385 Zed with Jarvan IV pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Jarvan IV Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Zed with Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV Will Play
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Zed Jarvan IV Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jarvan IV as Zed in LoL
The Zed Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, 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 Jarvan IV. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Jarvan IV helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Jarvan IV, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Jarvan IV helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Jarvan IV on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Jarvan IV. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jarvan IV.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Jarvan IV on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Jarvan IV does a decent job of covering Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Jarvan IV
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Is Zed better when played alongside Jarvan IV?
There is no ideal ally for Zed that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Jarvan IV is a very typical companion for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 48.1%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Zed and Jarvan IV that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Jarvan IV has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Jarvan IV allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Zed players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Zed and Jarvan IV together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AP. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Jarvan IV ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed to synergize with Jarvan IV during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue 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 most crucial finished items to include in your Zed and Jarvan IV synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Jarvan IV than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jarvan IV with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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