Varus with Zilean
How to Synergize Varus and Zilean
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Varus Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Varus with Zilean
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus 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 negative change shows that Zilean helps Varus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus is paired with Zilean, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Zilean helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Zilean on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Varus in team fights.
Synergies between Varus and Zilean
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Is Varus better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Varus that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Zilean is a decent teammate for Varus. By playing on the same side as Varus, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 50.1%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Varus and Zilean that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zilean has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you should be careful when lining up Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Varus and Zilean together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of engage potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to pair well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Varus and Zilean synergy build consist of Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Opportunity. When Varus incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other typical builds. In fact, Varus boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Varus players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Varus and Zilean pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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