Zilean with Leona
How to Synergize Zilean and Leona
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Zilean Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Leona
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Zilean Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Leona helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean is paired with Leona, he gets a massive increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Leona supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Leona on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Leona does a poor job of protecting Zilean during teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Leona
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Leona?
There is no ideal companion for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Leona is a pretty good teammate for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, she improves their win rate by 2.5% to 53.2%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Zilean and Leona that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Leona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Zilean players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Zilean and Leona together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zilean to work well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Zilean and Leona synergy build consist of Redemption, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Zilean combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Leona than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 53.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Zilean players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.2% win rate overall.
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