Veigar with Zilean
How to Synergize Veigar and Zilean
based on 1,172 Veigar with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Veigar Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Zilean
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar 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, Veigar sees a large worsening 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 Veigar perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Zilean, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Zilean supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Zilean on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Veigar during team fights.
Synergies between Veigar and Zilean
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Veigar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Zilean is a pretty good companion for Veigar. By playing on the same team as Veigar, he increases their win rate by 2.6% to 51.9%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Veigar and Zilean that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Veigar players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Veigar and Zilean together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Veigar to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Veigar and Zilean synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Veigar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Zilean than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing alongside Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
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