Zed with Yorick
How to Synergize Zed and Yorick
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Zed Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Zed with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Zed Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Zed in LoL
The Zed Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yorick helps Zed perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Yorick, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Yorick does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Yorick.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Yorick on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Yorick does a decent job of covering Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Yorick
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Is Zed better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no perfect companion for Zed that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Yorick is a very typical companion for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Zed and Yorick that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Yorick teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Yorick together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to synergize with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Zed and Yorick synergy build include Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Yorick than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.6% when playing alongside Yorick with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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