Zed vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Zed
based on 4,408 Zed vs Draven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Zed vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some important Zed against Draven matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Draven’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Draven..
Zed normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Draven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Draven
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Who is Better, Zed or Draven?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Draven, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a bad counter to Draven.
While Zed does have a lower win rate than Draven, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Dravenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Draven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Draven matchups, Draven is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Draven. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to counter Draven 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 stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Draven. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Zed versus Draven build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Draven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Draven with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Draven as Zed, you should use 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 players picked for Zed vs Draven battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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