Zed vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Zed
based on 1,973 Zed vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Heimerdinger
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 Win Against Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Zed vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Zed against Heimerdinger matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zed typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Heimerdinger. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Zed or Heimerdinger?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Heimerdinger, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a bad counter for Heimerdinger.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Heimerdingeras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Zed versus Heimerdinger build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Heimerdinger with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Heimerdinger as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zed vs Heimerdinger face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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