Vladimir with Zed
How to Synergize Vladimir and Zed
based on 1,572 Vladimir with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vladimir Zed Synergy Summary
Best Vladimir vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Zed
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Zed
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir 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, Vladimir sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Vladimir perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir is paired with Zed, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Zed provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Zed on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Vladimir during teamfights.
Synergies between Vladimir and Zed
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top champion pairing for Vladimir that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Zed is a relatively poor companion for Vladimir. By playing on the same team as Vladimir, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Vladimir and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Vladimir. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Vladimir and Zed together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
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 follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vladimir to pair well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Vladimir and Zed synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Stormsurge. When Vladimir included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zed than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Vladimir players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Vladimir and Zed pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Zed with Vladimir are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.