Zed vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Zed
based on 1,245 Zed vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Cassiopeia
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Zed vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Zed against Cassiopeia counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Cassiopeia..
Zed normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Cassiopeia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Zed or Cassiopeia?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when playing against Cassiopeia, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter for Cassiopeia.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Cassiopeia, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Cassiopeiaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Cassiopeia. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Cassiopeia. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zed versus Cassiopeia build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Cassiopeia than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Cassiopeia with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Cassiopeia as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zed vs Cassiopeia counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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