Kayn with Zilean
How to Synergize Kayn and Zilean
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Kayn Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Zilean
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Kayn perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn plays on the same team as Zilean, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Zilean supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played with 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.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Zilean on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Kayn in teamfights.
Synergies between Kayn and Zilean
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal companion for Kayn that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a good teammate for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, he raises their win rate by 1.2% to 50.4%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Kayn and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be careful when lining up Zilean teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Kayn players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Kayn and Zilean together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn 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 pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Kayn and Zilean synergy build consist of Hubris, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Kayn included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kayn players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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