Zed vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Zed
based on 3,093 Zed vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Zed vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some important Zed vs. Soraka matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Soraka. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Soraka. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Soraka
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Who is Better, Zed or Soraka?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when playing against Soraka, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a poor counter to Soraka.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Soraka, when facing one another, Zed also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Zed into Sorakaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zed is a terribly counter for Soraka. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to counter Soraka during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually accumulates much more CS compared to Soraka. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zed versus Soraka build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Soraka than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Soraka as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zed vs Soraka clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
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