Zed with Taric
How to Synergize Zed and Taric
based on 1,295 Zed with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Taric Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Taric
Tips for Playing as Zed with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Zed Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Zed in LoL
The Zed Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Taric helps Zed perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Taric, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Taric does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Taric 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 Taric.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Taric on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Taric does a decent job of protecting Zed in teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Taric
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Is Zed better when played alongside Taric?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zed that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Taric is a decent companion for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 50.8%. This proves that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Zed and Taric that results in them performing better together than alone.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Taric teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Zed players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zed and Taric together, you will not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 to pair well with Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Zed and Taric synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Taric than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Taric with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Zed players 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 runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
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