Zed with Naafiri
How to Synergize Zed and Naafiri
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Zed Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Zed with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Zed Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Zed in LoL
The Zed Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Naafiri helps Zed perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Naafiri, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Naafiri doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Naafiri 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 synergisticly with Naafiri.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Naafiri on the same team, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Naafiri does a poor job of protecting Zed in teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Zed that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Naafiri is a terrible ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, they decreases their win rate by -3.8% to 44.6%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Zed and Naafiri that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be cautious when arranging Naafiri allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Zed and Naafiri together, you probably will not be granting your side much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Naafiri teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 in order to synergize with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Zed and Naafiri synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Naafiri than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 44.6% when playing alongside Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.6% win rate overall.
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