Tristana vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Tristana
based on 4,495 Tristana vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Zed
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Tristana in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Tristana vs. Zed matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zed..
Tristana often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zed. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Zed
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Who is Better, Tristana or Zed?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually wins when playing against Zed, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a good counter to Zed.
While Tristana does have a higher win rate than Zed, when facing one another, Tristana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Zed.
Moreover, Tristana also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Zed matchups, Tristana is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Tristana is a decent counter for Zed. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana to counter Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Zed. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Tristana versus Zed build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Zed than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 51.4% battling Zed with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Zed as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tristana vs Zed battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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