Singed vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Singed
based on 3,116 Singed vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Singed vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Singed vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Singed
Tips for Playing as Singed against Zed
Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
Singed vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Singed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several influential Singed against Zed counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zed..
Singed often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Zed. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Singed and Zed
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Who is Better, Singed or Zed?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Singed usually wins when trying to fight Zed, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Singed makes a good counter to Zed.
While Singed does have a higher win rate compared to Zed, when facing one another, Singed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Singed into Zed.
Additionally, Singed 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Singed vs Zed matchups, Singed is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Singed is an above average counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Singed against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Singed to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Singed versus Zed build include Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Riftmaker. When Singed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Zed than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Singed had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing against Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Zed as Singed, Singed players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Singed vs Zed clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.1% winrate overall.
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