Kindred with Zed
How to Synergize Kindred and Zed
based on 1,995 Kindred with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kindred Zed Synergy Summary
Best Kindred vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Zed
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Zed
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a large worsening in their 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 Kindred perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kindred plays on the same team as Zed, they sees a little drop in their total damage output. This could indicate that Zed doesn't help cover for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played alongside Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Kindred plays with Zed on the same side, they on average takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Kindred during team fights.
Synergies between Kindred and Zed
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kindred that will 100% of the time be their best ally. However, Zed is a not very good teammate for Kindred. By being on the same side as Kindred, he drops their win rate by -2.1% to 46.2%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Kindred and Zed that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Kindred. That means Kindred players need to be cautious when enlisting Zed allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Kindred and Zed together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kindred to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Kindred and Zed synergy build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred bought at least these three great items in their build, they did a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 46.2% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kindred and Zed pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Zed with Kindred are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.