Zed vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Zed
based on 4,495 Zed vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Tristana Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Zed vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some vital Zed versus Tristana matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Tristana..
Zed typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Tristana
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Who is Better, Zed or Tristana?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when facing off against Tristana, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a bad counter to Tristana.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Tristana, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Tristanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Tristana matchups, Tristana is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Tristana. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zed against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to counter Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Tristana. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zed versus Tristana build consist of Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Tristana than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Tristana as Zed, 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 sets players chose for Zed vs Tristana battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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