Zed with Jhin
How to Synergize Zed and Jhin
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Zed Jhin Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Jhin
Tips for Playing as Zed with Jhin
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 Jhin Will Play
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Zed Jhin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jhin as Zed in LoL
The Zed Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 Jhin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Jhin helps Zed perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Jhin, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Jhin supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Jhin 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 alongside Jhin.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Jhin on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Jhin does a poor job of protecting Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Jhin
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Is Zed better when played alongside Jhin?
There is no perfect ally for Zed that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Jhin is a very typical ally for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 49.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Zed and Jhin that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Jhin has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Jhin allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zed and Jhin together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of cover. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Jhin ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to pair well with Jhin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Zed and Jhin synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Zed included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Jhin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jhin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Jhin with Zed are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.