Kayle vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Kayle
based on 4,020 Kayle vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Zed
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Advice to Win Against Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Kayle vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Kayle against Zed counter statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed..
Kayle typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zed. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Zed
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Who is Better, Kayle or Zed?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when taking on Zed, with a 54.2% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes a great counter to Zed.
While Kayle does have a much higher winrate compared to Zed, when facing one another, Kayle also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Zedas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Zed matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a great counter for Zed. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kayle against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kayle versus Zed build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kayle included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Zed than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 54.2% when playing against Zed with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Zed as Kayle, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Kayle vs Zed counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zed as Kayle are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.