Zed with Annie
How to Synergize Zed and Annie
based on 650 Zed with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Annie
Tips for Playing as Zed with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Zed Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Zed in LoL
The Zed Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Annie helps Zed perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed plays on the same team as Annie, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Annie does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Annie.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Annie on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Annie does a poor job of protecting Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Annie?
There is no ideal companion for Zed that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Annie is a terrible teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, she lowers their win rate by -5.8% to 42.6%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Zed and Annie that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be cautious when finding Annie teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Zed players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Zed and Annie together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of engage potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Annie ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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 Zed in order to synergize with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Zed and Annie synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Annie than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 42.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 42.6% winrate overall.
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