Shaco with Zed
How to Synergize Shaco and Zed
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Shaco Zed Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Zed Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Zed
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Zed
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Shaco perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco tries to synergize with Zed, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Zed provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Zed on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Shaco in teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Zed
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Zed is a not very good companion for Shaco. By being on the same team as Shaco, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 48.2%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Shaco and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Zed comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Shaco players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Shaco and Zed together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Shaco and Zed synergy build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Shaco players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zed with Shaco are presented for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.