Zed with Lucian
How to Synergize Zed and Lucian
based on 7,694 Zed with Lucian pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Zed with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Zed Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Zed in LoL
The Zed Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lucian helps Zed perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Lucian, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Lucian does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lucian.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Lucian on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Lucian does a decent job of protecting Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Lucian
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Is Zed better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no ideal companion for Zed that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Lucian is a not very good teammate for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 46.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Zed and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when finding Lucian allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Zed and Lucian together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed to synergize with Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Zed and Lucian synergy build include Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Lucian than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 46.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Triple Tonic, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zed and Lucian pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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