Gragas with Zilean
How to Synergize Gragas and Zilean
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Gragas Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Zilean
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Zilean, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Zilean supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Zilean on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gragas that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Zilean is a pretty good ally for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 48.9%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Gragas and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players need to be very careful when enlisting Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Gragas and Zilean together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas in order to work well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Gragas and Zilean synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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