Zed with Mordekaiser
How to Synergize Zed and Mordekaiser
based on 12,132 Zed with Mordekaiser pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Mordekaiser Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Zed with Mordekaiser
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 Mordekaiser Will Play
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
Zed Mordekaiser Synergy Stats
How to Play with Mordekaiser as Zed in LoL
The Zed Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, 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 Mordekaiser. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Mordekaiser helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Mordekaiser, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Mordekaiser supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Mordekaiser 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 Mordekaiser.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Mordekaiser on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Mordekaiser does a decent job of covering Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Mordekaiser
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Is Zed better when played alongside Mordekaiser?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Zed that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Mordekaiser is a top-tier ally for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he increases their win rate by 3.5% to 51.9%. This shows that there is an important bond between Zed and Mordekaiser that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Mordekaiser has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Mordekaiser allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Zed and Mordekaiser together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Mordekaiser teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to work well with Mordekaiser during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Zed and Mordekaiser synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Mordekaiser than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Mordekaiser with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Mordekaiser with Zed are presented for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.