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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Zed Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ziggs helps Zed perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Ziggs, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Ziggs helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Ziggs 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 synergisticly with Ziggs.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Ziggs on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Zed in team fights.
There is no one best companion for Zed that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Ziggs is a very typical teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 49.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Zed and Ziggs that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Ziggs has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Ziggs teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zed players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Zed and Ziggs together, you may not be giving your team very much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Zed in order to work well with Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Zed and Ziggs synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Ziggs than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Zed players 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 players used for Zed and Ziggs pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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