Miss Fortune ramps up speed if she hasn't recently taken damage. Avoid getting hit to move very fast.
Use Double Up on the furthest enemy minion if enemy champions are hiding in back; it will bounce to them for lots of damage.
Make sure to utilize Love Tap while Strut is on cooldown to maximize the active's availability.
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Miss Fortune versus Zed counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Miss Fortune’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Miss Fortune may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zed..
Miss Fortune typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zed. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Miss Fortune usually wins when playing against Zed, with a 54.4% win rate. Thus, Miss Fortune makes a great counter for Zed.
While Miss Fortune does have a much higher winrate compared to Zed, when they face off with one another, Miss Fortune also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Miss Fortune into Zed.
Moreover, Miss Fortune has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Miss Fortune vs Zed matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Miss Fortune is a great counter for Zed. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Miss Fortune against Zed.
To learn all of the intricacies of Miss Fortune in order to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Miss Fortune most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Zed. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Miss Fortune versus Zed build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Miss Fortune bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Zed than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Miss Fortune had an average win rate of 54.4% battling Zed with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Zed as Miss Fortune, Miss Fortune players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Miss Fortune vs Zed counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.4% winrate overall.
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