Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
The Annie Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Annie perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Zed, she gets a noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zed does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Zed on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Zed does a decent job of covering Annie during teamfights.
There is no perfect companion for Annie that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. Yet, Zed is a terrible ally for Annie. By locking into the same side as Annie, he decreases their win rate by -6.7% to 42.6%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Annie and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players need to be careful when finding Zed comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Annie players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Annie and Zed together, you may not be giving your side very much engage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Annie in order to pair well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Annie and Zed synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Zed than with most other common builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 42.6% when playing alongside Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Annie and Zed pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.6% win rate overall.
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