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.
The Zed Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zeri helps Zed perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Zeri, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zeri does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Zeri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zeri. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zeri.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Zeri on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zeri does a poor job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Zed that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Zeri is a not very good companion for Zed. By being on the same side as Zed, they lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 45.6%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Zed and Zeri that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zeri has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zeri teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Zeri together, you will not be granting your other teammates much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Zeri ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Zed in order to pair well with Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Zed and Zeri synergy build include Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Zeri than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 45.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zeri with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.6% winrate overall.
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