Zed with Soraka
How to Synergize Zed and Soraka
based on 2,923 Zed with Soraka pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Soraka Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Zed with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Zed Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Zed in LoL
The Zed Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Soraka helps Zed perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Soraka, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Soraka provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Soraka on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Soraka. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Soraka.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Soraka on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Zed in teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Soraka
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Is Zed better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no perfect ally for Zed that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Soraka is a very typical companion for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, she increases their win rate by 0.5% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Zed and Soraka that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when enlisting Soraka allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Zed and Soraka together, you may not be giving your team enough tankyness. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 in order to synergize with Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Zed and Soraka synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Zed included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Soraka than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Soraka with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zed and Soraka pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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