Olaf with Zed
How to Synergize Olaf and Zed
based on 1,010 Olaf with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Zed Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Zed Counter Build
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Core Olaf Items
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Zed
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Zed
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Olaf sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Olaf perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Olaf is paired with Zed, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Zed helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Zed on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Olaf in team fights.
Synergies between Olaf and Zed
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best ally for Olaf that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Zed is a below average ally for Olaf. By playing on the same side as Olaf, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Olaf and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Zed allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Olaf and Zed together, you will not be giving your side much AP. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Olaf in order to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Olaf and Zed synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Olaf players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Olaf and Zed pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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