Zed with Ahri
How to Synergize Zed and Ahri
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Zed Ahri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Zed with Ahri
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.
Advice to Understand How Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Zed Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Zed in LoL
The Zed Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ahri helps Zed perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Ahri, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Ahri does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Ahri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ahri.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Ahri on the same side, he usually takes significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ahri does a poor job of protecting Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no ideal companion for Zed that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Ahri is a very typical companion for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Zed and Ahri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Ahri has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when enlisting Ahri comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Zed and Ahri together, you probably will not be granting your team very much engage potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Ahri ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed to work well with Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Zed and Ahri synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Ahri than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing alongside Ahri with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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