Thresh with Zed
How to Synergize Thresh and Zed
based on 4,892 Thresh with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Zed Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Zed
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Zed
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
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.
Thresh Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a very large drop in his 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 Thresh perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is paired with Zed, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Zed provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Zed on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Thresh in team fights.
Synergies between Thresh and Zed
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Zed is a not very good teammate for Thresh. By playing on the same team as Thresh, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 46.8%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Thresh and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be cautious when finding Zed teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Thresh players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Thresh and Zed together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to work well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Thresh and Zed synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Thresh players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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