Zed with Neeko
How to Synergize Zed and Neeko
based on 2,349 Zed with Neeko pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Neeko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Zed with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Zed Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Zed in LoL
The Zed Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 Neeko. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Neeko helps Zed perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Neeko, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Neeko doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Neeko 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 alongside Neeko.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Neeko on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Neeko does a poor job of protecting Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Neeko
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Is Zed better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zed that will always be his #1 ally. However, Neeko is a below average teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, she decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 47.0%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Zed and Neeko that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Neeko has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Neeko teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Zed and Neeko together, you will not be giving your side a lot of cover. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Neeko ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed to work well with Neeko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Zed and Neeko synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Zed combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Neeko than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Neeko with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Zed and Neeko pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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