Alistar with Zilean
How to Synergize Alistar and Zilean
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Alistar Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Zilean
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Zilean, he sees a very large increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Zilean helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Zilean 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 Zilean.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Zilean on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Zilean
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best champion pairing for Alistar that will always be his ideal ally. However, Zilean is a fantastic companion for Alistar. By being on the same side as Alistar, he raises their win rate by 4.2% to 53.6%. This shows that there is a strong synergy between Alistar and Zilean that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Alistar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Alistar and Zilean together, you will not be giving your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to synergize with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Alistar and Zilean synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 53.6% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.6% winrate overall.
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