Rumble with Zed
How to Synergize Rumble and Zed
based on 2,745 Rumble with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rumble Zed Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Zed Counter Build
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Core Rumble Items
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Zed
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Zed
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble 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, Rumble sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Rumble perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rumble plays on the same team as Zed, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Zed supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Rumble plays with Zed on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Rumble during team fights.
Synergies between Rumble and Zed
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Rumble that will always be his best teammate. However, Zed is a below average companion for Rumble. By playing on the same side as Rumble, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 47.8%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Rumble and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a much lower diffuclty than Rumble. That means Rumble players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Rumble and Zed together, you will not be granting your other allies enough support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Rumble Zed Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rumble to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Rumble and Zed synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rumble had an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Rumble players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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