Vayne vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Vayne
based on 7,401 Vayne vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Zed Counter Build
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Core Vayne Items
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Guide to Countering Zed as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Zed
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Vayne in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some strategic Vayne vs. Zed matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zed..
Vayne normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zed. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Zed
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Who is Better, Vayne or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vayne usually wins when trying to fight Zed, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes a good counter to Zed.
While Vayne does have a higher win rate than Zed, when facing one another, Vayne also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Vayne into Zedas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vayne has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Zed matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter to Zed. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vayne against Zed.
Other Champion Matchups Against Vayne
Additional Information for Vayne Players
How We Calculated Our Vayne vs Zed Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne 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 shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Vayne versus Zed build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Vayne combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Zed than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 51.8% battling Zed with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Zed as Vayne, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Vayne vs Zed face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zed as Vayne are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.