Katarina with Zed
How to Synergize Katarina and Zed
based on 683 Katarina with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Zed Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Zed
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Zed
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Zed, she sees a little increase in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Zed provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Zed on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Zed
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal ally for Katarina that will always be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Zed is a very bad ally for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -5.2% to 43.6%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Katarina and Zed that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Zed together, you will not be providing your team enough support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to pair well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Katarina and Zed synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Zed than with many other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 43.6% helping carry Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina and Zed pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.6% winrate overall.
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