Zed with Leona
How to Synergize Zed and Leona
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Zed Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Leona
Tips for Playing as Zed with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Zed Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Zed in LoL
The Zed Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Leona helps Zed perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed plays on the same team as Leona, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Leona does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Leona 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 with Leona.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Leona on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Leona does a decent job of covering Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Leona
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Is Zed better when played alongside Leona?
There is no one best ally for Zed that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Leona is a pretty good companion for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, she increases their win rate by 1.8% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Zed and Leona that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Leona comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to pair well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Zed and Leona synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Leona than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Leona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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