Zed with Alistar
How to Synergize Zed and Alistar
based on 2,190 Zed with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Zed with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Zed Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Zed in LoL
The Zed Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Zed perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Alistar, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Alistar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Alistar on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zed that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Alistar is a not very good ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 47.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Zed and Alistar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Alistar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Zed players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Alistar together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Zed and Alistar synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Alistar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Alistar with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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