Rengar with Zilean
How to Synergize Rengar and Zilean
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Rengar Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rengar and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Rengar with Zilean
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Rengar in LoL
The Rengar 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, Rengar 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 drop shows that Zilean helps Rengar perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rengar is paired with Zilean, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Zilean supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rengar is played together with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Rengar plays with Zilean on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Rengar during teamfights.
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Is Rengar better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best ally for Rengar that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a superb companion for Rengar. By locking into the same side as Rengar, he raises their win rate by 3.9% to 52.9%. This proves that there is a very real synergy between Rengar and Zilean that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Rengar. That means Rengar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Rengar and Zilean together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rengar to pair well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Rengar and Zilean synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Rengar used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other common builds. In fact, Rengar had an average win rate of 52.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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