Zed with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Zed and Blitzcrank
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Zed Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Zed with Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Zed Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Zed in LoL
The Zed Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Blitzcrank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Blitzcrank helps Zed perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Blitzcrank, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Blitzcrank helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Blitzcrank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Blitzcrank.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Blitzcrank on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Blitzcrank does a decent job of covering Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Blitzcrank
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Is Zed better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zed that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Blitzcrank is a very typical teammate for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 48.2%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Zed and Blitzcrank that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Blitzcrank has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Blitzcrank comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Zed players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Zed and Blitzcrank together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Blitzcrank teammate, you need to focus on maximizing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to work well with Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Zed and Blitzcrank synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Blitzcrank than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 48.2% helping carry Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Blitzcrank with Zed are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.