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.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
The Zilean Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rumble helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is paired with Rumble, he observes a noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Rumble doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Rumble on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rumble. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rumble.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Rumble on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Rumble does a decent job of covering Zilean during team fights.
There is no top ally for Zilean that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Rumble is a good ally for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Zilean and Rumble that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Rumble has a much greater difficulty compared to Zilean. That means Zilean players must be cautious when lining up Rumble comrades to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Zilean players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zilean and Rumble together, you will not be providing your other allies very much AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Rumble teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Zilean in order to work well with Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Zilean and Rumble synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Chemtech Putrifier, and Shard of True Ice. When Zilean used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Rumble than with most other common builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 52.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rumble with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating 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 picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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