Zilean with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Zilean and Kai'Sa
based on 1,705 Zilean with Kai'Sa pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Core Zilean Items
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Zilean Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kai'Sa helps Zilean perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Kai'Sa does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Kai'Sa on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Kai'Sa does a poor job of covering Zilean in teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Kai'Sa
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zilean that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kai'Sa is a very bad companion for Zilean. By locking into the same team as Zilean, she lowers their win rate by -3.9% to 46.8%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Zilean and Kai'Sa that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Kai'Sa allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zilean and Kai'Sa together, you will not be granting your side enough utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to synergize with Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Zilean and Kai'Sa synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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