Shyvana with Zed
How to Synergize Shyvana and Zed
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Shyvana Zed Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Zed
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Zed
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Shyvana perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is paired with Zed, she gets a little increase in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Zed supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played alongside Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Zed on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Shyvana during team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Zed
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best synergy for Shyvana that will always be her #1 teammate. However, Zed is a below average companion for Shyvana. By playing on the same side as Shyvana, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 46.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Shyvana and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players should be very careful when lining up Zed allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Shyvana players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Shyvana and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your side very much support. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shyvana to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Shyvana and Zed synergy build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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