Zed with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Zed and Lee Sin
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Zed Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Zed with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Zed Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Zed in LoL
The Zed Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lee Sin helps Zed perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Lee Sin, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Lee Sin helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Lee Sin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Lee Sin on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of covering Zed during team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no one best companion for Zed that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Lee Sin is a terrible teammate for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 44.9%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Zed and Lee Sin that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lee Sin has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Lee Sin teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zed players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Zed and Lee Sin together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Lee Sin 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 should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed to pair well with Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Zed and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Lee Sin than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 44.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lee Sin with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.9% winrate overall.
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