Nami with Zilean
How to Synergize Nami and Zilean
based on 128 Nami with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Nami with Zilean
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Nami in LoL
The Nami Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zilean helps Nami perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nami is paired with Zilean, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Zilean supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played alongside Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zilean.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Zilean on the same team, she on average receives more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Nami during team fights.
Synergies between Nami and Zilean
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Is Nami better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best synergy for Nami that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, overall, Zilean is a relatively poor companion for Nami. By being on the same team as Nami, he drops their win rate by -3.0% to 46.1%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Nami and Zilean that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means you need to be careful when arranging Zilean comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by bringing Nami and Zilean together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Nami to synergize with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Nami and Zilean synergy build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Zilean than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 46.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Nami players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nami and Zilean pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.1% winrate overall.
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