Kai'Sa with Zed
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Zed
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Kai'Sa Zed Synergy Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Zed
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Zed
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kai'Sa sees a very large drop in her 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 Kai'Sa perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kai'Sa is paired with Zed, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Zed supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Kai'Sa plays with Zed on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Kai'Sa during team fights.
Synergies between Kai'Sa and Zed
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top ally for Kai'Sa that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Zed is a relatively poor companion for Kai'Sa. By playing on the same team as Kai'Sa, he drops their win rate by -2.2% to 44.3%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Kai'Sa and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means Kai'Sa players must be very careful when lining up Zed comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Kai'Sa players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kai'Sa and Zed together, you may not be providing your side very much utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa and Zed synergy build consist of Muramana, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Zed than with most other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 44.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Kai'Sa players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Zed with Kai'Sa are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.