Akali with Zed
How to Synergize Akali and Zed
based on 2,625 Akali with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Zed Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Zed
Tips for Playing as Akali with Zed
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali 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 decrease shows that Zed helps Akali perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali tries to synergize with Zed, she gets a little increase in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Zed helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Zed on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Akali during teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top companion for Akali that will always be her top ally. Yet, Zed is a relatively poor companion for Akali. By playing on the same side as Akali, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Akali and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be careful when enlisting Zed teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Akali and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Akali and Zed synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Akali players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Akali and Zed pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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