Zed vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Zed
based on 1,869 Zed vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Zed vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several valuable Zed vs. Sivir matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the two. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sivir. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Sivir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Sivir
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Who is Better, Zed or Sivir?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Sivir, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes an ok counter for Sivir.
While Zed does have a higher win rate compared to Sivir, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Siviras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Sivir matchups, Zed is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zed is a decent counter for Sivir. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Sivir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Sivir. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Zed versus Sivir build consist of Edge of Night, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Sivir than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 50.9% battling Sivir with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Sivir as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zed vs Sivir clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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