Zed with Kassadin
How to Synergize Zed and Kassadin
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Zed Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Zed with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Zed Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Zed in LoL
The Zed Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Zed perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed plays on the same team as Kassadin, he gets a noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Kassadin does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kassadin.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Kassadin on the same side, he usually takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kassadin does a poor job of covering Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Kassadin
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Is Zed better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no top companion for Zed that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Kassadin is a below average ally for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 46.7%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Zed and Kassadin that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players must be cautious when finding Kassadin comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Zed and Kassadin together, you probably will not be granting your team very much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to pair well with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Zed and Kassadin synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Kassadin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when playing alongside Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
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