Akali with Zilean
How to Synergize Akali and Zilean
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Akali Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Akali with Zilean
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean helps Akali perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is an ally to Zilean, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zilean helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Zilean.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Zilean on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top companion for Akali that will always be her best ally. Yet, Zilean is a very typical ally for Akali. By being on the same team as Akali, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 49.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Akali and Zilean that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Zilean teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Akali players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Akali and Zilean together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akali to work well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Akali and Zilean synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Akali players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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