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 Rell 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, Rell sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Rell perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rell is paired with Zed, she observes a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Zed supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rell is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zed.
Additionally, when Rell plays with Zed on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Rell during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Rell that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Zed is a very bad companion for Rell. By playing on the same team as Rell, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 46.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Rell and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Rell. That means Rell players must be very careful when arranging Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Rell and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. 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, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rell to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Rell and Zed synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rell bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rell had an average winrate of 46.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Rell players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Rell and Zed pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.2% winrate overall.
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