Zed with Xayah
How to Synergize Zed and Xayah
based on 1,928 Zed with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Xayah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Zed with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Zed Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Zed in LoL
The Zed Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xayah helps Zed perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Xayah, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Xayah doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Xayah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xayah.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Xayah on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Xayah does a poor job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Xayah
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Is Zed better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Zed that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Xayah is a terrible companion for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, she lowers their win rate by -3.6% to 44.8%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Zed and Xayah that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Xayah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Zed players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Zed and Xayah together, you probably will not be providing your side enough magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Zed in order to synergize with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Zed and Xayah synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Zed included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Xayah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 44.8% when playing alongside Xayah with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you 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 rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
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