Soraka with Zilean
How to Synergize Soraka and Zilean
based on 134 Soraka with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Soraka Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Soraka vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Soraka and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Soraka with Zilean
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Soraka in LoL
The Soraka 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, Soraka sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Soraka perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Soraka is an ally to Zilean, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Zilean helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Soraka plays with Zilean on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Soraka in team fights.
Synergies between Soraka and Zilean
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Is Soraka better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top companion for Soraka that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, Zilean is a terrible ally for Soraka. By locking into the same side as Soraka, he decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 46.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Soraka and Zilean that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Soraka. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Soraka and Zilean together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, 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 will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Soraka in order to pair well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Soraka and Zilean synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Soraka used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Zilean than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
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