Azir with Zilean
How to Synergize Azir and Zilean
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Azir Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Azir vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Azir and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Azir with Zilean
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Azir in LoL
The Azir Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Azir sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Azir perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Azir is an ally to Zilean, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Zilean helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Azir is played alongside Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zilean.
Additionally, when Azir plays with Zilean on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Azir in teamfights.
Synergies between Azir and Zilean
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Is Azir better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Azir that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a very typical teammate for Azir. By playing on the same team as Azir, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Azir and Zilean that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Zilean has a much lower diffuclty than Azir. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Zilean allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Azir and Zilean together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Azir to synergize with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Azir and Zilean synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zilean than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when playing alongside Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Azir players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Zilean with Azir are shown for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.