Ahri with Zed
How to Synergize Ahri and Zed
based on 684 Ahri with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ahri Zed Synergy Summary
Best Ahri vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ahri and Zed
Tips for Playing as Ahri with Zed
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Ahri in LoL
The Ahri Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Ahri perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ahri tries to synergize with Zed, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This change may signal that Zed provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Ahri plays with Zed on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Ahri in teamfights.
Synergies between Ahri and Zed
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Is Ahri better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal synergy for Ahri that will always be her best teammate. However, Zed is a very typical teammate for Ahri. By being on the same side as Ahri, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Ahri and Zed that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Ahri. That means you must be careful when enlisting Zed allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Ahri players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Ahri and Zed together, you may not be granting your other allies much cover. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Ahri to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Ahri and Zed synergy build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Ahri and Zed pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Zed with Ahri are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.