Rek'Sai with Zed
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Zed
based on 514 Rek'Sai with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rek'Sai Zed Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Zed
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Zed
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Rek'Sai perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rek'Sai is an ally to Zed, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Zed doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Rek'Sai plays with Zed on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Zed does a decent job of covering Rek'Sai during team fights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Zed
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal companion for Rek'Sai that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Zed is a very typical teammate for Rek'Sai. By being on the same side as Rek'Sai, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 48.2%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Rek'Sai and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Rek'Sai. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Zed allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Rek'Sai and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Rek'Sai in order to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Rek'Sai and Zed synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Rek'Sai players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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