Zed vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Zed
based on 1,492 Zed vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Zed vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable Zed against Kassadin matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kassadin. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Zed or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually wins when taking on Kassadin, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a good counter to Kassadin.
While Zed does have a higher win rate compared to Kassadin, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zed into Kassadinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Kassadin matchups, Zed is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zed is a good counter for Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zed against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kassadin. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Zed versus Kassadin 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 vs. Kassadin than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 52.1% when countering Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Kassadin as Zed, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zed vs Kassadin clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.1% winrate overall.
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