Zed with Nilah
How to Synergize Zed and Nilah
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Zed Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Zed with Nilah
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.
Zed Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Zed in LoL
The Zed Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nilah helps Zed perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed plays on the same team as Nilah, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Nilah does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Nilah on the same side, 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 Nilah.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Nilah on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nilah does a decent job of covering Zed during team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no top companion for Zed that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Nilah is a good companion for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, they raises their win rate by 1.9% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Zed and Nilah that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nilah has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means you must be cautious when lining up Nilah teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Nilah together, you may not be granting your team a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed to pair well with Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Zed and Nilah synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nilah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 50.3% helping carry Nilah with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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