Zed vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Zed
based on 1,917 Zed vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Zed vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here show some influential Zed vs. Jarvan IV matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jarvan IV’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Jarvan IV..
Zed usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Jarvan IV. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Jarvan IV
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Who is Better, Zed or Jarvan IV?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when playing against Jarvan IV, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter to Jarvan IV.
While Zed does have a higher winrate than Jarvan IV, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Jarvan IVas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Jarvan IV matchups, Jarvan IV is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zed is a decent counter for Jarvan IV. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Jarvan IV.
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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 Jarvan IV during both the early game 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 suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically gets much more CS as Jarvan IV. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zed versus Jarvan IV build include Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Jarvan IV than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Jarvan IV with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Jarvan IV 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. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Zed vs Jarvan IV counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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