Zilean with Nilah
How to Synergize Zilean and Nilah
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Zilean Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Nilah
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.
Zilean Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nilah helps Zilean perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean plays on the same team as Nilah, he sees a sizeable uptick in his full damage output. This may signal that Nilah supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Nilah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nilah.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Nilah on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nilah does a decent job of protecting Zilean in team fights.
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Zilean that will always be his best synergy. However, Nilah is a very typical companion for Zilean. By playing on the same team as Zilean, they improves their win rate by 0.9% to 51.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Zilean and Nilah that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Zilean. That means Zilean players need to be cautious when enlisting Nilah comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Zilean and Nilah together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of engage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nilah ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Zilean and Nilah synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nilah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Nilah with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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