Zed with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Zed and Rek'Sai
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Zed Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Zed with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Zed Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Zed in LoL
The Zed Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rek'Sai helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed plays on the same team as Rek'Sai, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Rek'Sai does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Rek'Sai on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of covering Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Rek'Sai
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Is Zed better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no ideal ally for Zed that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Rek'Sai is a very typical teammate for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 48.2%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Zed and Rek'Sai that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when finding Rek'Sai comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Zed players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zed and Rek'Sai together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Rek'Sai ally, you should focus on increasing 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 work well with Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Zed and Rek'Sai synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Rek'Sai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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