Aatrox with Zilean
How to Synergize Aatrox and Zilean
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Aatrox Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Zilean
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Aatrox Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean helps Aatrox perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox plays on the same team as Zilean, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Zilean helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played together with Zilean 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 with Zilean.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Zilean on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Aatrox in team fights.
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Aatrox that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Zilean is a very typical ally for Aatrox. By locking into the same team as Aatrox, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Aatrox and Zilean that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players must be very careful when arranging Zilean allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Aatrox players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Aatrox and Zilean together, you probably will not be providing your side enough tankyness. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aatrox in order to synergize with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Aatrox and Zilean synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Zilean with Aatrox are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.