Ezreal with Zed
How to Synergize Ezreal and Zed
based on 7,921 Ezreal with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ezreal Zed Synergy Summary
Best Ezreal vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ezreal and Zed
Tips for Playing as Ezreal with Zed
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Ezreal in LoL
The Ezreal 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, Ezreal sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Ezreal perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ezreal is an ally to Zed, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Zed helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ezreal is played alongside Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Ezreal plays with Zed on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Ezreal in teamfights.
Synergies between Ezreal and Zed
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Is Ezreal better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Ezreal that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Zed is a very typical ally for Ezreal. By being on the same team as Ezreal, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 46.1%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Ezreal and Zed that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Ezreal. That means Ezreal players don't need to be careful when arranging Zed teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Ezreal players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Ezreal and Zed together, you will not be giving your side much support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ezreal to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Ezreal and Zed synergy build include Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Ezreal used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Ezreal boasted an average winrate of 46.1% helping carry Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Ezreal and Zed pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.1% win rate overall.
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