Zilean with Shyvana
How to Synergize Zilean and Shyvana
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Zilean Shyvana Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Shyvana
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 Shyvana Will Play
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
Zilean Shyvana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shyvana as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, 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 Shyvana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shyvana helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Shyvana, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Shyvana does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Shyvana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shyvana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shyvana.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Shyvana on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Shyvana does a poor job of protecting Zilean during team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Shyvana
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Shyvana?
There is no top ally for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Shyvana is a terrible ally for Zilean. By locking into the same team as Zilean, she drops their win rate by -3.1% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Zilean and Shyvana that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shyvana has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Shyvana allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zilean and Shyvana together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Shyvana ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zilean in order to work well with Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Zilean and Shyvana synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Shyvana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest 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. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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