Trundle vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Trundle
based on 8,109 Trundle vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Trundle vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Trundle vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Trundle
Tips for Playing as Trundle against Zed
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Trundle in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Trundle versus Zed counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Trundle usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zed. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Trundle and Zed
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Who is Better, Trundle or Zed?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually wins when facing off against Zed, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Trundle makes a great counter to Zed.
While Trundle does have a higher winrate than Zed, when on opposite teams, Trundle also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Trundle into Zed.
Moreover, Trundle also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Zed matchups, Trundle 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 team fights.
Trundle is a great counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Trundle against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Trundle in order to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Zed. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Trundle versus Zed build include Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Wit's End. When Trundle included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Trundle boasted an average win rate of 53.6% when countering Zed with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Zed as Trundle, Trundle players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Trundle vs Zed matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.6% winrate overall.
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