Zed with Orianna
How to Synergize Zed and Orianna
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Zed Orianna Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Zed with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Zed Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Zed in LoL
The Zed Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Orianna helps Zed perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Orianna, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Orianna doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Orianna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Orianna on the same team, he typically receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Orianna does a poor job of protecting Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Orianna
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Is Zed better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no perfect synergy for Zed that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Orianna is a not very good ally for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, she decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.3%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Zed and Orianna that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Orianna has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be cautious when lining up Orianna allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Zed players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Orianna together, you may not be providing your other teammates much cover. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed to pair well with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Zed and Orianna synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Orianna than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 46.3% helping carry Orianna with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Zed and Orianna pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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