Jarvan IV with Zilean
How to Synergize Jarvan IV and Zilean
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Jarvan IV Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jarvan IV and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV with Zilean
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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.
Jarvan IV Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Jarvan IV in LoL
The Jarvan IV 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, Jarvan IV sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zilean helps Jarvan IV perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jarvan IV is an ally to Zilean, he sees a noticable increase in his total damage output. This may indicate that Zilean helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Jarvan IV is played alongside Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Jarvan IV plays with Zilean on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Jarvan IV during team fights.
Synergies between Jarvan IV and Zilean
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Is Jarvan IV better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Jarvan IV that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Zilean is a decent companion for Jarvan IV. By playing on the same team as Jarvan IV, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 50.3%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Jarvan IV and Zilean that results in them performing better together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Jarvan IV. That means Jarvan IV players must be very careful when arranging Zilean allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Jarvan IV players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Jarvan IV and Zilean together, you will not be providing your other allies much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jarvan IV to work well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Jarvan IV and Zilean synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Jarvan IV boasted an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Jarvan IV and Zilean pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Zilean with Jarvan IV are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.