Gragas with Zed
How to Synergize Gragas and Zed
based on 2,601 Gragas with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Zed Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Zed
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Zed
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas 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 drop shows that Zed helps Gragas perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas tries to synergize with Zed, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Zed supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Zed on the same team, 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 Gragas plays with Zed on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Gragas during team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Zed
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal synergy for Gragas that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Zed is a relatively poor ally for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, he lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 45.4%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Gragas and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players must be cautious when arranging Zed allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Gragas players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Gragas and Zed together, you will not be providing your team very much AP. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas in order to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Gragas and Zed synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 45.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Gragas and Zed pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.4% win rate overall.
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