Jarvan IV with Zed
How to Synergize Jarvan IV and Zed
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Jarvan IV Zed Synergy Summary
Best Jarvan IV vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jarvan IV and Zed
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV with Zed
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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.
Jarvan IV Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Jarvan IV in LoL
The Jarvan IV 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, Jarvan IV sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Jarvan IV perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jarvan IV plays on the same team as Zed, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Zed doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Jarvan IV is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Jarvan IV plays with Zed on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Jarvan IV in team fights.
Synergies between Jarvan IV and Zed
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Is Jarvan IV better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal ally for Jarvan IV that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Zed is a very typical ally for Jarvan IV. By locking into the same team as Jarvan IV, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Jarvan IV and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Jarvan IV. That means Jarvan IV players must be careful when finding Zed allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Jarvan IV players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Jarvan IV and Zed together, you may not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Jarvan IV in order to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Jarvan IV and Zed synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Jarvan IV boasted an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Jarvan IV players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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