Zed vs Corki
How to Beat Corki as Zed
based on 1,344 Zed vs Corki matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Corki Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Corki Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Corki as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Corki
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 Corki
Watch out for Corki's Missile Barrage. They deal splash damage, so you can get hit even when hiding behind minions.
Corki is vulnerable after he uses his Valkyrie or Special Delivery, so try switching focus to him if he uses them to enter a fight.
Zed vs Corki Counter Stats
How to Counter Corki with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some important Zed versus Corki counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Corki’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Corki..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Corki. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Corki
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Who is Better, Zed or Corki?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Corki, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a bad counter to Corki.
While Zed does have a lower win rate than Corki, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Corkias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Corki. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Corki matchups, Corki is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Corki. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zed against Corki.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed to counter Corki during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Corki. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Zed versus Corki build consist of Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Corki than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing against Corki with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Corki as Zed, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Zed vs Corki face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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