Braum with Zilean
How to Synergize Braum and Zilean
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Braum Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Braum vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Braum and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Braum with Zilean
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
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.
Braum Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Braum in LoL
The Braum 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, Braum sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zilean helps Braum perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Braum is paired with Zilean, he observes a noticable increase in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Zilean supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Braum is played together with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Braum plays with Zilean on the same side, he often takes much more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Braum in team fights.
Synergies between Braum and Zilean
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Is Braum better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal companion for Braum that will always be his top synergy. However, Zilean is a relatively poor ally for Braum. By locking into the same team as Braum, he lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Braum and Zilean that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Braum. That means Braum players should be very careful when enlisting Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by grouping Braum and Zilean together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Braum in order to pair well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Braum and Zilean synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Braum combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Braum had an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Braum players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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