Zed vs Senna
How to Beat Senna as Zed
based on 10,317 Zed vs Senna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Senna Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Senna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Senna as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Senna
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 Senna Counter Stats
How to Counter Senna with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Zed against Senna matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Senna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Senna. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Senna. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Senna
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Who is Better, Zed or Senna?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when playing against Senna, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a poor counter to Senna.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Senna, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Sennaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Senna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Senna matchups, Senna is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Senna. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Senna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to counter Senna during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average gets more CS compared to Senna. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zed versus Senna build include Axiom Arc, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Senna than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.3% battling Senna with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Senna as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Zed vs Senna fights, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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