Lucian with Zilean
How to Synergize Lucian and Zilean
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Lucian Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Zilean
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian 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 negative change shows that Zilean helps Lucian perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian is paired with Zilean, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Zilean doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played together with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Zilean on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Lucian in team fights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top champion pairing for Lucian that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Zilean is a not very good teammate for Lucian. By playing on the same team as Lucian, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Lucian and Zilean that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Zilean comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, Lucian players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Lucian and Zilean together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Lucian in order to work well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Lucian and Zilean synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Zilean than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lucian had an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Lucian players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Lucian and Zilean pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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