Heimerdinger with Zilean
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Zilean
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Heimerdinger Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Zilean
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Heimerdinger perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger is paired with Zilean, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zilean provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zilean.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Zilean on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger in team fights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Zilean
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best companion for Heimerdinger that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Zilean is a very typical ally for Heimerdinger. By being on the same team as Heimerdinger, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Heimerdinger and Zilean that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Zilean teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Heimerdinger and Zilean together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to work well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Heimerdinger and Zilean synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Heimerdinger and Zilean pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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