Zed vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Zed
based on 2,061 Zed vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Nilah
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.
Zed vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some critical Zed vs. Nilah counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nilah..
Zed often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Nilah
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Who is Better, Zed or Nilah?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Nilah, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a poor counter to Nilah.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Nilah, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Zed into Nilahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zed is a trash counter for Nilah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nilah. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zed versus Nilah build consist of Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Nilah than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 46.9% when playing against Nilah with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Nilah as Zed, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zed vs Nilah fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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