Darius with Zed
How to Synergize Darius and Zed
based on 4,069 Darius with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Darius Zed Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Zed
Tips for Playing as Darius with Zed
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Darius perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius tries to synergize with Zed, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Zed helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Zed on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Darius in teamfights.
Synergies between Darius and Zed
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Is Darius better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top synergy for Darius that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Zed is a not very good companion for Darius. By locking into the same team as Darius, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Darius and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means you should be careful when lining up Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Darius players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Darius and Zed together, you probably will not be giving your side very much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Darius to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Darius and Zed synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Titanic Hydra. When Darius used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Zed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Darius players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Darius and Zed pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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