Zed with Samira
How to Synergize Zed and Samira
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Zed Samira Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Samira
Tips for Playing as Zed with Samira
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.
Zed Samira Synergy Stats
How to Play with Samira as Zed in LoL
The Zed Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Samira helps Zed perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Samira, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Samira does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Samira on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Samira.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Samira on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Samira does a decent job of covering Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Samira?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zed that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Samira is a below average teammate for Zed. By being on the same side as Zed, she drops their win rate by -2.1% to 46.3%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Zed and Samira that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Samira has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Samira comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Zed and Samira together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Samira ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed to work well with Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Zed and Samira synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Zed combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Samira than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 46.3% helping carry Samira with this build.
To have the greatest chance 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 chose for Zed and Samira pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Samira with Zed are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.