Zilean with Anivia
How to Synergize Zilean and Anivia
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Zilean Anivia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Anivia
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Anivia
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 Anivia Will Play
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Zilean Anivia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Anivia as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Anivia. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Anivia helps Zilean perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is an ally to Anivia, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Anivia helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Anivia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Anivia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Anivia.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Anivia on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Anivia does a poor job of protecting Zilean in teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Anivia
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Anivia?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Anivia is a very typical ally for Zilean. By being on the same side as Zilean, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 50.4%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Zilean and Anivia that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Anivia has a much greater difficulty compared to Zilean. That means you should be very careful when lining up Anivia comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Zilean players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Zilean and Anivia together, you probably will not be giving your team much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Anivia ally, 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to work well with Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Zilean and Anivia synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Anivia than with many other common builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
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