Annie with Zilean
How to Synergize Annie and Zilean
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Annie Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Annie with Zilean
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Annie in LoL
The Annie Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a very large drop in her 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 Annie perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Zilean, she gets a noticable increase in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Zilean provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Zilean.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Zilean on the same side, she typically takes more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Annie during teamfights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top synergy for Annie that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Zilean is a below average teammate for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 47.3%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Annie and Zilean that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Annie players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Annie and Zilean together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to synergize with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Annie and Zilean synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 47.3% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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