Zed vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Zed
based on 3,947 Zed vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Zed vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here show several significant Zed against Vi counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vi..
Zed typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Vi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Vi
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Who is Better, Zed or Vi?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Vi, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a poor counter to Vi.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Vi, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zed into Vias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zed is a trash counter for Vi. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Vi.
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How We Calculated Our Zed vs Vi Build and Stats
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to counter Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average gets much more CS as Vi. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Zed versus Vi build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Vi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.0% when playing against Vi with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Vi 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for Zed vs Vi LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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