Ahri with Zilean
How to Synergize Ahri and Zilean
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Ahri Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ahri and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Ahri with Zilean
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Understand How Zilean Will Play
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.
Ahri Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Ahri in LoL
The Ahri Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean helps Ahri perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ahri is paired with Zilean, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Zilean supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Moreover, when Ahri plays with Zilean on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Ahri during teamfights.
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Is Ahri better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top companion for Ahri that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, Zilean is a very typical teammate for Ahri. By locking into the same side as Ahri, he improves their win rate by 0.2% to 48.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Ahri and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Ahri. That means you should be very careful when lining up Zilean allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Ahri and Zilean together, you may not be giving your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to work well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Ahri and Zilean synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Zilean than with many other common builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 48.4% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Ahri players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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