Zed vs Vladimir
How to Beat Vladimir as Zed
based on 4,384 Zed vs Vladimir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Vladimir Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vladimir as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Vladimir
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 Vladimir
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
Zed vs Vladimir Counter Stats
How to Counter Vladimir with Zed in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Zed versus Vladimir counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vladimir..
Zed typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Vladimir. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Vladimir
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Who is Better, Zed or Vladimir?
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 facing off against Vladimir, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a bad counter to Vladimir.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Vladimir, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Zed into Vladimiras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zed is a garbage counter to Vladimir. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zed against Vladimir.
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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 Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Vladimir. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zed versus Vladimir build include Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Vladimir than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.9% battling Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Vladimir as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, 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 Vladimir counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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