Zed with Thresh
How to Synergize Zed and Thresh
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Zed Thresh Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Zed with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Zed Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Zed in LoL
The Zed Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Thresh helps Zed perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Thresh, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Thresh doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Thresh 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 alongside Thresh.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Thresh on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Thresh does a decent job of covering Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no perfect synergy for Zed that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Thresh is a relatively poor teammate for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 46.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Zed and Thresh that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Thresh teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Zed and Thresh together, you may not be providing your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to synergize with Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Zed and Thresh synergy build consist of Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Thresh than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Thresh with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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