Zed with Illaoi
How to Synergize Zed and Illaoi
based on 2,130 Zed with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Zed with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Zed Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Zed in LoL
The Zed Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Illaoi helps Zed perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Illaoi, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Illaoi does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Illaoi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Illaoi.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Illaoi on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Illaoi
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Is Zed better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Zed that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Illaoi is a very typical ally for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, she lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.2%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Zed and Illaoi that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when finding Illaoi comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Zed and Illaoi together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed to pair well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Zed and Illaoi synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Illaoi with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Zed players should equip 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 sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Illaoi with Zed are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.