Zed with Udyr
How to Synergize Zed and Udyr
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Zed Udyr Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Udyr
Tips for Playing as Zed with Udyr
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 Udyr Will Play
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
Zed Udyr Synergy Stats
How to Play with Udyr as Zed in LoL
The Zed Udyr synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Udyr, 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 Udyr. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Udyr helps Zed perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Udyr, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Udyr provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Udyr 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 alongside Udyr.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Udyr on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Udyr does a decent job of covering Zed during teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Udyr?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Zed that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Udyr is a good teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 49.7%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Zed and Udyr that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Udyr has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Udyr teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Udyr together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Udyr ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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 learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to synergize with Udyr during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zed and Udyr synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Udyr than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing alongside Udyr with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Udyr with Zed are given for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.