Zed with Irelia
How to Synergize Zed and Irelia
based on 1,878 Zed with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Zed with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Zed Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Zed in LoL
The Zed Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Zed perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Irelia, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Irelia doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Irelia on the same side, 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 Irelia.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Irelia on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Irelia does a poor job of covering Zed during team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no ideal synergy for Zed that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Irelia is a not very good ally for Zed. By being on the same side as Zed, she lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 45.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Zed and Irelia that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Irelia allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Zed players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Zed and Irelia together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to pair well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Zed and Irelia synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Irelia than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Zed and Irelia pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.6% winrate overall.
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