Zilean with Zed
How to Synergize Zilean and Zed
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Zilean Zed Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Zed
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Zed
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
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.
Zilean Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zilean sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Zilean perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Zed, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Zed helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Zed on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Zilean during team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Zed
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect synergy for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Zed is a pretty good companion for Zilean. By locking into the same team as Zilean, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 52.2%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Zilean and Zed that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players need to be careful when arranging Zed allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zilean and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of cover. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zilean to synergize with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Zilean and Zed synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 52.2% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Zilean players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Zilean and Zed pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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