Zilean with Ziggs
How to Synergize Zilean and Ziggs
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Zilean Ziggs Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Ziggs
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 Ziggs Will Play
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Zilean Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ziggs helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean plays on the same team as Ziggs, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Ziggs provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ziggs.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Ziggs on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Zilean during teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Ziggs
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Zilean that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Ziggs is a very bad teammate for Zilean. By playing on the same team as Zilean, he lowers their win rate by -4.0% to 46.7%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Zilean and Ziggs that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ziggs has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be careful when finding Ziggs allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Zilean players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Zilean and Ziggs together, you will not be providing your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Ziggs teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 pair well with Ziggs during both the lane 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 stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Zilean and Ziggs synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 46.7% helping carry Ziggs with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Zilean and Ziggs pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Ziggs with Zilean are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.