Akshan with Zed
How to Synergize Akshan and Zed
based on 676 Akshan with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akshan Zed Synergy Summary
Best Akshan vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Zed
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Zed
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Akshan perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan plays on the same team as Zed, they observes a small decrease in their full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zed does not provide protection for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Zed on the same team, they typically receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Akshan during teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal synergy for Akshan that will no matter what be their top ally. However, overall, Zed is a very bad companion for Akshan. By locking into the same team as Akshan, he lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 45.3%. This shows that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Akshan and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players must be cautious when lining up Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Akshan players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Akshan and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akshan to pair well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Akshan and Zed synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 45.3% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Zed with Akshan are given for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.