Ziggs with Zed
How to Synergize Ziggs and Zed
based on 2,145 Ziggs with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ziggs Zed Synergy Summary
Best Ziggs vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Zed
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Zed
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.
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
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.
Ziggs Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ziggs sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Ziggs perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ziggs is paired with Zed, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Zed supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Ziggs plays with Zed on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Ziggs during teamfights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Zed
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal companion for Ziggs that will always be his #1 ally. However, Zed is a decent companion for Ziggs. By locking into the same side as Ziggs, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 49.2%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Ziggs and Zed that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Ziggs. That means Ziggs players need to be careful when enlisting Zed allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Ziggs and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Ziggs in order to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Ziggs and Zed synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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