Zed with Varus
How to Synergize Zed and Varus
based on 5,339 Zed with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Varus Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Varus
Tips for Playing as Zed with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Zed Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Zed in LoL
The Zed Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Varus helps Zed perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Varus, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Varus does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Varus.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Varus on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Varus does a decent job of protecting Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Varus
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Is Zed better when played alongside Varus?
There is no top ally for Zed that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Varus is a very typical teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 47.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Zed and Varus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when finding Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Zed and Varus together, you will not be granting your other allies very much crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Varus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 truly master Zed in order to work well with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Zed and Varus synergy build include Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Varus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Zed players should equip 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 used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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