Zed with Tristana
How to Synergize Zed and Tristana
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Zed Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Zed with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Zed Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Zed in LoL
The Zed Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Tristana helps Zed perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Tristana, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Tristana does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Tristana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Tristana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tristana.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Tristana on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Tristana
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Is Zed better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no top synergy for Zed that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Tristana is a below average teammate for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, she decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 46.1%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Zed and Tristana that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Tristana has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when arranging Tristana allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Zed and Tristana together, you will not be providing your team enough support. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Tristana teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to synergize with Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Zed and Tristana synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Tristana than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 46.1% when playing alongside Tristana with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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 sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.1% winrate overall.
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