Viktor with Zed
How to Synergize Viktor and Zed
based on 427 Viktor with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Zed Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Zed
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Zed
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor sees a large worsening in his 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 Viktor perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor is paired with Zed, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This could signal that Zed does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played together with 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 synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Zed on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Zed does a decent job of protecting Viktor during team fights.
Synergies between Viktor and Zed
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best synergy for Viktor that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Zed is a relatively poor teammate for Viktor. By playing on the same team as Viktor, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 48.9%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Viktor and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zed comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Viktor players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Viktor and Zed together, you may not be providing your team a lot of support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on maximizing 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Viktor and Zed synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Zed than with most other common builds. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Viktor and Zed pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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