Lee Sin with Zilean
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Zilean
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Lee Sin Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Zilean
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a very large drop 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 Lee Sin perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lee Sin is paired with Zilean, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Zilean supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin 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 Lee Sin plays with Zilean on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Lee Sin in teamfights.
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal synergy for Lee Sin that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Zilean is a very typical companion for Lee Sin. By locking into the same side as Lee Sin, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 47.5%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Lee Sin and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Lee Sin. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Zilean teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Lee Sin players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Lee Sin and Zilean together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to work well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Lee Sin and Zilean synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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