Aatrox with Zed
How to Synergize Aatrox and Zed
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Aatrox Zed Synergy Summary
Best Aatrox vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Zed
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Zed
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
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.
Aatrox Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Aatrox perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox is an ally to Zed, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Zed provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Zed on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Aatrox in teamfights.
Synergies between Aatrox and Zed
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Zed is a relatively poor companion for Aatrox. By playing on the same team as Aatrox, he lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 48.3%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Aatrox and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players need to be very careful when lining up Zed allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Aatrox players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Aatrox and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your team much AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aatrox in order to pair well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Aatrox and Zed synergy build include Randuin's Omen, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Aatrox players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Aatrox and Zed pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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