Anivia with Zilean
How to Synergize Anivia and Zilean
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Anivia Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Anivia and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Anivia with Zilean
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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.
Anivia Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Anivia in LoL
The Anivia 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, Anivia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zilean helps Anivia perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Anivia is paired with Zilean, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Zilean helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Anivia is played with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Anivia plays with Zilean on the same side, she usually takes more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Anivia during team fights.
Synergies between Anivia and Zilean
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Is Anivia better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Anivia that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a very typical companion for Anivia. By being on the same side as Anivia, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 50.4%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Anivia and Zilean that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zilean has a much lower diffuclty than Anivia. That means Anivia players don't need to be cautious when arranging Zilean comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Anivia and Zilean together, you probably will not be granting your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Anivia to synergize with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Anivia and Zilean synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Zilean than with many other common builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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