Nilah with Zed
How to Synergize Nilah and Zed
based on 2,025 Nilah with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nilah Zed Synergy Summary
Best Nilah vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nilah and Zed
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.
Nilah Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Nilah in LoL
The Nilah 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, Nilah sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Nilah perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nilah is an ally to Zed, they sees a small increase in their total damage output. This could indicate that Zed provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nilah is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Nilah plays with Zed on the same team, they on average takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Nilah in team fights.
Synergies between Nilah and Zed
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Is Nilah better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best ally for Nilah that will always be their best synergy. However, overall, Zed is a not very good teammate for Nilah. By locking into the same team as Nilah, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Nilah and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a much lower diffuclty than Nilah. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Zed comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Nilah players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Nilah and Zed together, you may not be giving your other teammates much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Nilah to work well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Nilah and Zed synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Immortal Shieldbow, and Navori Quickblades. When Nilah bought at least these three finished items in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nilah and Zed pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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