Zed with K'Sante
How to Synergize Zed and K'Sante
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Zed K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Zed with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Zed K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Zed in LoL
The Zed K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that K'Sante helps Zed perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to K'Sante, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that K'Sante provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with K'Sante 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 K'Sante.
Moreover, when Zed plays with K'Sante on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that K'Sante does a poor job of covering Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and K'Sante
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Is Zed better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no top champion pairing for Zed that will always be his ideal ally. However, K'Sante is a terrible teammate for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, they decreases their win rate by -4.5% to 43.9%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Zed and K'Sante that results in them performing worse together than alone.
K'Sante has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means you need to be careful when lining up K'Sante allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Zed players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Zed and K'Sante together, you probably will not be providing your side very much support. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your K'Sante ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to synergize with K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Zed and K'Sante synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Zed incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with K'Sante than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 43.9% helping carry K'Sante with this build.
To have the highest 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. Of all the runes players used for Zed and K'Sante pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.9% winrate overall.
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