Ornn with Zilean
How to Synergize Ornn and Zilean
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Ornn Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Ornn vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ornn and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Ornn with Zilean
Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
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.
Ornn Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Ornn in LoL
The Ornn 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, Ornn sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean helps Ornn perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ornn tries to synergize with Zilean, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Zilean helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ornn is played together 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.
Moreover, when Ornn plays with Zilean on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Ornn in team fights.
Synergies between Ornn and Zilean
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Is Ornn better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best companion for Ornn that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Zilean is a very typical companion for Ornn. By being on the same side as Ornn, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.3%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Ornn and Zilean that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Ornn. That means you must be cautious when arranging Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Ornn and Zilean together, you probably will not be granting your team very much attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Ornn in order to pair well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Ornn and Zilean synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and The Unspoken Parasite. When Ornn combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zilean than with most other common builds. In fact, Ornn had an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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