Zilean with Akali
How to Synergize Zilean and Akali
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Zilean Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Akali
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Zilean Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zilean sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Zilean perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Akali, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This could signal that Akali does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Akali 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 alongside Akali.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Akali on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Akali does a decent job of covering Zilean during team fights.
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Akali?
There is no one best companion for Zilean that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Akali is a not very good teammate for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, she lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 49.6%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Zilean and Akali that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means you must be very careful when arranging Akali comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Zilean and Akali together, you may not be providing your side very much attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Zilean to synergize with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Zilean and Akali synergy build include Morellonomicon, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 49.6% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Zilean players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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