Zilean with Thresh
How to Synergize Zilean and Thresh
based on 222 Zilean with Thresh pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Zilean Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Thresh helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is paired with Thresh, he sees a massive increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Thresh helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Thresh.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Thresh on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Thresh does a poor job of covering Zilean in team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Thresh
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no one best synergy for Zilean that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Thresh is a terrible teammate for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, he decreases their win rate by -5.7% to 45.0%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Zilean and Thresh that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players must be cautious when lining up Thresh comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Zilean and Thresh together, you will not be providing your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to synergize with Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Zilean and Thresh synergy build consist of Redemption, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Zilean used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Thresh than with most other common builds. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 45.0% when playing alongside Thresh with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Zilean players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.0% win rate overall.
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