Zed with Akshan
How to Synergize Zed and Akshan
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Zed Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Zed with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Zed Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Zed in LoL
The Zed Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 Akshan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akshan helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Akshan, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Akshan does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akshan.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Akshan on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no top ally for Zed that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Akshan is a very bad ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, they decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 45.3%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Zed and Akshan that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when enlisting Akshan comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Zed and Akshan together, you will not be providing your team a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to synergize with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Zed and Akshan synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Akshan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 45.3% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.3% winrate overall.
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