Syndra with Zed
How to Synergize Syndra and Zed
based on 668 Syndra with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Syndra Zed Synergy Summary
Best Syndra vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Syndra and Zed
Tips for Playing as Syndra with Zed
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Syndra in LoL
The Syndra 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, Syndra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Syndra perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Syndra is an ally to Zed, she gets a small decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Zed does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Syndra is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Syndra plays with Zed on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Zed does a decent job of protecting Syndra during teamfights.
Synergies between Syndra and Zed
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Is Syndra better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Syndra that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Zed is a very bad ally for Syndra. By locking into the same team as Syndra, he decreases their win rate by -4.8% to 43.9%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Syndra and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Syndra. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Zed allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Syndra and Zed together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Syndra to work well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Syndra and Zed synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Syndra used at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Syndra boasted an average win rate of 43.9% when playing alongside Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Syndra players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Syndra and Zed pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.9% win rate overall.
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