Caitlyn with Zilean
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Zilean
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Caitlyn Zilean Synergy Summary
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Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Zilean
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn 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 Caitlyn perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Zilean, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change could signal that Zilean supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn 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 alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Zilean on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn during team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect synergy for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, Zilean is a pretty good teammate for Caitlyn. By being on the same team as Caitlyn, he raises their win rate by 2.3% to 51.6%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Caitlyn and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Zilean allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Caitlyn players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Caitlyn and Zilean together, you will not be providing your team enough tankyness. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Caitlyn in order to work well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Caitlyn and Zilean synergy build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Caitlyn players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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