Zed with Fiddlesticks
How to Synergize Zed and Fiddlesticks
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Zed Fiddlesticks Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Fiddlesticks
Tips for Playing as Zed with Fiddlesticks
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.
Zed Fiddlesticks Synergy Stats
How to Play with Fiddlesticks as Zed in LoL
The Zed Fiddlesticks synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Fiddlesticks, 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 Fiddlesticks. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Fiddlesticks helps Zed perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is paired with Fiddlesticks, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Fiddlesticks provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Fiddlesticks on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Fiddlesticks.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Fiddlesticks on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Fiddlesticks does a decent job of protecting Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Fiddlesticks?
There is no top champion pairing for Zed that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Fiddlesticks is a good ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he increases their win rate by 2.5% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Zed and Fiddlesticks that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Fiddlesticks has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players need to be careful when finding Fiddlesticks allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Zed players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Zed and Fiddlesticks together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much engage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Fiddlesticks ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to synergize with Fiddlesticks during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Zed and Fiddlesticks synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Zed used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Fiddlesticks than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Fiddlesticks with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Fiddlesticks with Zed are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.