Zed with Nami
How to Synergize Zed and Nami
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Zed Nami Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Nami
Tips for Playing as Zed with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Zed Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Zed in LoL
The Zed Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nami helps Zed perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed plays on the same team as Nami, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This could signal that Nami supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Nami 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 Nami.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Nami on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Nami does a poor job of covering Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Nami?
There is no ideal synergy for Zed that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Nami is a relatively poor companion for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 46.9%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Zed and Nami that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nami has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when lining up Nami teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Nami together, you will not be providing your side much engage potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Nami ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 pair well with Nami during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Zed and Nami synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Nami than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 46.9% helping carry Nami with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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