Zed with Aatrox
How to Synergize Zed and Aatrox
based on 5,771 Zed with Aatrox pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Aatrox Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Zed with Aatrox
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.
Advice to Understand How Aatrox Will Play
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Zed Aatrox Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aatrox as Zed in LoL
The Zed Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aatrox helps Zed perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Aatrox, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Aatrox doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Aatrox on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Aatrox. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aatrox.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Aatrox on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Aatrox does a decent job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Aatrox
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Is Zed better when played alongside Aatrox?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zed that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Aatrox is a very typical ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 48.3%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Zed and Aatrox that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aatrox has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Aatrox comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Zed and Aatrox together, you may not be providing your team enough AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Aatrox teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to pair well with Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Zed and Aatrox synergy build include Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Aatrox than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aatrox with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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