Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
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 LeBlanc 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, LeBlanc 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 negative change shows that Zed helps LeBlanc perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When LeBlanc plays on the same team as Zed, she observes a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This could signal that Zed does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when LeBlanc 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 with Zed.
Moreover, when LeBlanc plays with Zed on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting LeBlanc during teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for LeBlanc that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Zed is a not very good teammate for LeBlanc. By locking into the same team as LeBlanc, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 45.1%. This shows that there is a negative bond between LeBlanc and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than LeBlanc. That means LeBlanc players don't need to be careful when lining up Zed comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping LeBlanc and Zed together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master LeBlanc to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your LeBlanc and Zed synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average winrate of 45.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, LeBlanc players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zed with LeBlanc are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.