Zilean with Katarina
How to Synergize Zilean and Katarina
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Zilean Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Zilean Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Zilean perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean plays on the same team as Katarina, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This may indicate that Katarina does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Katarina 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 synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Katarina on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Zilean during teamfights.
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal ally for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Katarina is a very typical ally for Zilean. By locking into the same side as Zilean, she drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.3%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Zilean and Katarina that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Katarina comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zilean players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zilean and Katarina together, you probably will not be granting your side much sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Zilean and Katarina synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Katarina than with most other common builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 50.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing 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. Of all the runes players used for Zilean and Katarina pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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