Zed with Taliyah
How to Synergize Zed and Taliyah
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Zed Taliyah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Zed with Taliyah
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 Taliyah Will Play
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Zed Taliyah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taliyah as Zed in LoL
The Zed Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Taliyah helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Taliyah, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Taliyah provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Taliyah 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 with Taliyah.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Taliyah on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Taliyah does a poor job of covering Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Taliyah
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Is Zed better when played alongside Taliyah?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Zed that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Taliyah is a very typical ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, she lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Zed and Taliyah that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Taliyah has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Taliyah teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Zed and Taliyah together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Taliyah ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed in order to pair well with Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Zed and Taliyah synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Taliyah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.8% helping carry Taliyah with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Taliyah with Zed are displayed for all ranked divisions. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.