Zed vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Zed
based on 6,831 Zed vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Morgana
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 Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Zed vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Zed vs. Morgana matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the pair. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Morgana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Morgana. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Morgana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Morgana
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Who is Better, Zed or Morgana?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when playing against Morgana, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a bad counter for Morgana.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Morgana, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Zed into Morganaas 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 Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zed is a garbage counter to Morgana. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Morgana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Morgana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average gets more CS compared to Morgana. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zed versus Morgana build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Zed included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Morgana than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Morgana with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Morgana as Zed, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Zed vs Morgana counters, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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