Zilean with Gragas
How to Synergize Zilean and Gragas
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Zilean Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Zilean Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gragas helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean is an ally to Gragas, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Gragas doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gragas.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gragas does a poor job of covering Zilean in teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Gragas
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Zilean that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Gragas is a below average ally for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Zilean and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Gragas allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Zilean players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Zilean and Gragas together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gragas teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Zilean in order to synergize with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Zilean and Gragas synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Gragas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Zilean players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
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