Zed with Zilean
How to Synergize Zed and Zilean
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Zed Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zed with Zilean
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Zilean, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Zilean supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Zilean on the same team, 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 Zed plays with Zilean on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Zed during teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect ally for Zed that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a superb teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he improves their win rate by 3.8% to 52.2%. This proves that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Zed and Zilean that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Zilean comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Zed and Zilean together, you may not be giving your side a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Zed in order to pair well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Zed and Zilean synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Zilean than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 52.2% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
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