Zed vs Yone
How to Beat Yone as Zed
based on 8,609 Zed vs Yone matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Yone Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Yone as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Yone
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 Yone Counter Stats
How to Counter Yone with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here feature some vital Zed versus Yone counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yone’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Yone..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Yone. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Yone
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Who is Better, Zed or Yone?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Yone, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter for Yone.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Yone, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Yoneas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yone. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter 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 Yone matchups, Yone is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Yone. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Yone.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Yone during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Yone. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Zed versus Yone build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Zed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Yone than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Yone with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Yone as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Triple Tonic, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Zed vs Yone counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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