Rumble with Zilean
How to Synergize Rumble and Zilean
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Rumble Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Zilean
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble 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, Rumble 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 negative change shows that Zilean helps Rumble perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rumble is paired with Zilean, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Zilean helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zilean.
Additionally, when Rumble plays with Zilean on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Rumble during teamfights.
Synergies between Rumble and Zilean
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best ally for Rumble that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Zilean is a very typical companion for Rumble. By locking into the same team as Rumble, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 49.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Rumble and Zilean that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Zilean has a much lower diffuclty than Rumble. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zilean comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Rumble players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Rumble and Zilean together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much AD. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rumble in order to pair well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Rumble and Zilean synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Zilean than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rumble had an average win rate of 49.6% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Rumble and Zilean pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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