Zed with Sona
How to Synergize Zed and Sona
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Zed Sona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Sona
Tips for Playing as Zed with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Zed Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Zed in LoL
The Zed Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sona helps Zed perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Sona, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Sona does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sona.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Sona on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Sona does a decent job of protecting Zed during team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Sona?
There is no perfect companion for Zed that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Sona is a very typical companion for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, she increases their win rate by 0.1% to 48.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Zed and Sona that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when lining up Sona teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Sona together, you will not be providing your team enough cover. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Sona ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to pair well with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Zed and Sona synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Sona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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