Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
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 Ivern Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ivern sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Ivern perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ivern tries to synergize with Zed, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Zed supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ivern is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Ivern plays with Zed on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Ivern in team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Ivern that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Zed is a below average companion for Ivern. By playing on the same team as Ivern, he lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 48.3%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Ivern and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Ivern. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Zed teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Ivern players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Ivern and Zed together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Ivern to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Ivern and Zed synergy build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ivern boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Ivern players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Ivern and Zed pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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