Zilean with Yasuo
How to Synergize Zilean and Yasuo
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Zilean Yasuo Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Zilean Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yasuo helps Zilean perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean is an ally to Yasuo, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Yasuo helps provide cover 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 Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yasuo. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yasuo.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Yasuo on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Zilean during teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Yasuo
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Yasuo is a very typical ally for Zilean. By locking into the same side as Zilean, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 51.1%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Zilean and Yasuo that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Zilean. That means you must be very careful when finding Yasuo comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Zilean and Yasuo together, you will not be granting your other teammates much engage potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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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 Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Zilean and Yasuo synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Zilean combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Yasuo than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yasuo with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Zilean players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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