Darius with Zilean
How to Synergize Darius and Zilean
based on 1,547 Darius with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Darius Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Darius with Zilean
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius 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 worsening shows that Zilean helps Darius perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Darius is an ally to Zilean, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Zilean provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius 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 synergisticly with Zilean.
Moreover, when Darius plays with Zilean on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Darius during team fights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top synergy for Darius that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Zilean is a good teammate for Darius. By playing on the same side as Darius, he raises their win rate by 2.8% to 52.0%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Darius and Zilean that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Zilean has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means Darius players should be cautious when finding Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Darius and Zilean together, you may not be giving your team enough magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Darius to work well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Darius and Zilean synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Darius included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zilean than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Darius and Zilean pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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