Zed with Katarina
How to Synergize Zed and Katarina
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Zed Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Zed with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Zed Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Zed in LoL
The Zed Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Zed perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Katarina, he observes a measurable drop in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Katarina 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 Katarina.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Katarina on the same side, he on average takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Katarina does a poor job of covering Zed in teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Katarina
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Is Zed better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal companion for Zed that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a terrible teammate for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, she decreases their win rate by -4.8% to 43.6%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Zed and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means you must be cautious when lining up Katarina allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zed players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Katarina together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Zed and Katarina synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 43.6% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.6% win rate overall.
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