Zed vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Zed
based on 2,835 Zed vs Volibear matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Volibear
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 Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several important Zed versus Volibear matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Volibear..
Zed usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Volibear. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Volibear
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Who is Better, Zed or Volibear?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when taking on Volibear, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter for Volibear.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Volibear, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Volibearas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Volibear. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Volibear matchups, Volibear 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 late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Volibear. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Volibear.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Volibear. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zed versus Volibear build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Volibear than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Volibear with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Volibear 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 builds players used for Zed vs Volibear matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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