Zed with Kalista
How to Synergize Zed and Kalista
based on 1,136 Zed with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Kalista Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Zed with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Zed Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Zed in LoL
The Zed Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Zed perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Kalista, he sees a measurable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Kalista doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Kalista on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kalista. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kalista.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Kalista on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kalista does a decent job of protecting Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Kalista
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Is Zed better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Zed that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Kalista is a very bad teammate for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, she decreases their win rate by -5.7% to 42.7%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Zed and Kalista that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kalista allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Zed players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Zed and Kalista together, you will not be granting your other allies much support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kalista teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Zed and Kalista synergy build include Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Kalista than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 42.7% helping carry Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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 rune combinations players chose for Zed and Kalista pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.7% win rate overall.
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