Brand with Zilean
How to Synergize Brand and Zilean
based on 1,496 Brand with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Brand with Zilean
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand 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 Brand perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand tries to synergize with Zilean, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This could signal that Zilean helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zilean.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Zilean on the same side, he on average takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Brand in teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top synergy for Brand that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Zilean is a very typical teammate for Brand. By being on the same team as Brand, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 51.8%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Brand and Zilean that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Zilean allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Brand and Zilean together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Brand in order to work well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Brand and Zilean synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 51.8% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Brand and Zilean pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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