Zed with Olaf
How to Synergize Zed and Olaf
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Zed Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Zed with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Zed Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Zed in LoL
The Zed Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Olaf helps Zed perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Olaf, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Olaf does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Olaf 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 Olaf.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Olaf on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Olaf
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Is Zed better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no perfect ally for Zed that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Olaf is a very typical companion for Zed. By being on the same side as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Zed and Olaf that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be cautious when finding Olaf teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Zed and Olaf together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing 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
If you would like to truly master Zed to pair well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Zed and Olaf synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Olaf with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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