Zed with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Zed and Kai'Sa
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Zed Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Zed with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Zed Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Zed in LoL
The Zed Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kai'Sa helps Zed perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, he gets a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Kai'Sa does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Kai'Sa on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kai'Sa does a decent job of covering Zed in teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Kai'Sa
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Is Zed better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Zed that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Kai'Sa is a terrible ally for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, she decreases their win rate by -4.1% to 44.3%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Zed and Kai'Sa that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be cautious when lining up Kai'Sa teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Zed and Kai'Sa together, you may not be granting your other allies much utility. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed in order to work well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Zed and Kai'Sa synergy build include Edge of Night, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Kai'Sa than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 44.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Zed and Kai'Sa pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.3% winrate overall.
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