Zilean with Kassadin
How to Synergize Zilean and Kassadin
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Zilean Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Zilean Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kassadin helps Zilean perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Kassadin, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Kassadin provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Kassadin on the same side, 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 alongside Kassadin.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Kassadin on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Kassadin does a poor job of covering Zilean during teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Kassadin
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no top synergy for Zilean that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Kassadin is a pretty good ally for Zilean. By locking into the same side as Zilean, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 52.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Zilean and Kassadin that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players should be very careful when enlisting Kassadin teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Zilean players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zilean and Kassadin together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 to work well with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Zilean and Kassadin synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Kassadin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing alongside Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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