Morgana vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Morgana
based on 6,831 Morgana vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Zed
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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.
Morgana vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Morgana in LoL
The stats provided here show some significant Morgana vs. Zed counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zed. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Morgana usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zed. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Morgana and Zed
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Who is Better, Morgana or Zed?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Morgana usually wins when facing off against Zed, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Morgana makes a good counter for Zed.
While Morgana does have a higher win rate than Zed, when on opposite teams, Morgana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Morgana into Zed.
Moreover, Morgana has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Zed matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Morgana is a good counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Morgana against Zed.
Other Champion Matchups Against Morgana
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Morgana to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana most often picks up less CS relative to Zed. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Morgana versus Zed build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Solstice Sleigh, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Morgana boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Zed as Morgana, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Triple Tonic, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Morgana vs Zed clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.6% win rate overall.
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