Varus with Zed
How to Synergize Varus and Zed
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Varus Zed Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Zed
Tips for Playing as Varus with Zed
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus 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 decrease shows that Zed helps Varus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus tries to synergize with Zed, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Zed provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Zed on the same side, 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 Varus plays with Zed on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Varus in teamfights.
Synergies between Varus and Zed
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Is Varus better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best ally for Varus that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Zed is a very typical companion for Varus. By locking into the same side as Varus, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 47.5%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Varus and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Zed teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Varus and Zed together, you may not be providing your other allies enough utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Varus in order to pair well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Varus and Zed synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Varus used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Zed than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Varus players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Varus and Zed pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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