K'Sante with Zilean
How to Synergize K'Sante and Zilean
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K'Sante Zilean Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Zilean
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Zilean
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zilean helps K'Sante perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When K'Sante plays on the same team as Zilean, they gets a small increase in their total damage output. This change could signal that Zilean provides cover for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played together with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Zilean.
Additionally, when K'Sante plays with Zilean on the same team, they usually receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering K'Sante during team fights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Zilean
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best synergy for K'Sante that will always be their ideal teammate. Yet, Zilean is a very typical ally for K'Sante. By being on the same side as K'Sante, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 46.5%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between K'Sante and Zilean that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zilean has a much lower diffuclty than K'Sante. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing K'Sante and Zilean together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of AD. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master K'Sante in order to synergize with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your K'Sante and Zilean synergy build include Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante bought at least these three great items in their build, they performed a lot better when paired up with Zilean than with many other common builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 46.5% helping carry Zilean with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, K'Sante players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for K'Sante and Zilean pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Zilean with K'Sante are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.