Zed with Volibear
How to Synergize Zed and Volibear
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Zed Volibear Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Zed with Volibear
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 Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Zed in LoL
The Zed Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Volibear helps Zed perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Volibear, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Volibear does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Volibear on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Volibear. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Volibear.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Volibear on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Volibear does a decent job of covering Zed in teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Zed that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Volibear is a not very good ally for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 46.7%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Zed and Volibear that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Volibear allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Zed and Volibear together, you will not be providing your team very much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Volibear ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to work well with Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Zed and Volibear synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Zed incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Volibear than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 46.7% helping carry Volibear with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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