Zed vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Zed
based on 2,435 Zed vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Zed vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Zed vs. Lissandra counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Zed or Lissandra?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Lissandra, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a poor counter to Lissandra.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zed into Lissandraas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zed is a garbage counter to Lissandra. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Lissandra. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zed versus Lissandra build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Zed included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Lissandra than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 47.5% when countering Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Lissandra as Zed, Zed players should take 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 sets that we analyzed for Zed vs Lissandra counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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