Samira with Zed
How to Synergize Samira and Zed
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Samira Zed Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Samira 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.
Samira Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira sees a very large drop in her 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 Samira perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira is an ally to Zed, she sees a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This may indicate that Zed doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Samira 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 with Zed.
Moreover, when Samira plays with Zed on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Samira during teamfights.
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Is Samira better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Samira that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Zed is a below average companion for Samira. By being on the same team as Samira, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 46.3%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Samira and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Samira. That means you must be cautious when lining up Zed allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Samira and Zed together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Samira in order to pair well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Samira and Zed synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira bought at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 46.3% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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