Leona with Zed
How to Synergize Leona and Zed
based on 4,594 Leona with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Zed Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Zed
Tips for Playing as Leona with Zed
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Leona perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona is paired with Zed, she observes a little increase in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Zed supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Zed on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Leona in team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal ally for Leona that will always be her ideal synergy. However, Zed is a below average companion for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Leona and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players must be careful when lining up Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Leona players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Leona and Zed together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of AP. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Leona in order to work well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Leona and Zed synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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