Zilean with Taliyah
How to Synergize Zilean and Taliyah
based on 448 Zilean with Taliyah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Taliyah Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Core Zilean Items
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Taliyah
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 Taliyah Will Play
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Zilean Taliyah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taliyah as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taliyah helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is paired with Taliyah, he sees a moderate decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Taliyah does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Taliyah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Taliyah. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Taliyah.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Taliyah on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Taliyah does a decent job of protecting Zilean during team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Taliyah
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Taliyah?
There is no perfect synergy for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Taliyah is a below average teammate for Zilean. By locking into the same side as Zilean, she drops their win rate by -2.3% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Zilean and Taliyah that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Taliyah has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be cautious when arranging Taliyah allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Zilean players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Zilean and Taliyah together, you will not be giving your other allies very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Taliyah ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zilean in order to pair well with Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Zilean and Taliyah synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Taliyah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Taliyah with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you 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 builds that we analyzed for Zilean and Taliyah pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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