Zed with Master Yi
How to Synergize Zed and Master Yi
based on 5,131 Zed with Master Yi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Master Yi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Master Yi
Tips for Playing as Zed with Master Yi
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 Master Yi Will Play
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Zed Master Yi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Master Yi as Zed in LoL
The Zed Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Master Yi helps Zed perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed plays on the same team as Master Yi, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Master Yi doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Master Yi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Master Yi.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Master Yi on the same team, he typically takes less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Master Yi does a decent job of covering Zed during teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Master Yi?
There is no perfect synergy for Zed that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Master Yi is a not very good ally for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 47.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Zed and Master Yi that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Master Yi has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Master Yi teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Zed and Master Yi together, you probably will not be providing your team very much crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Master Yi teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed to pair well with Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Zed and Master Yi synergy build include Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Master Yi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.0% helping carry Master Yi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you 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 combinations that we analyzed for Zed and Master Yi pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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