Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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.
The Dr. Mundo 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, Dr. Mundo sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Dr. Mundo perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Dr. Mundo is an ally to Zilean, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Zilean supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Dr. Mundo is played with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Dr. Mundo plays with Zilean on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Dr. Mundo during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Dr. Mundo that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Zilean is a very typical ally for Dr. Mundo. By playing on the same side as Dr. Mundo, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 50.6%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Dr. Mundo and Zilean that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Dr. Mundo. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Dr. Mundo players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Dr. Mundo and Zilean together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Dr. Mundo in order to pair well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Dr. Mundo and Zilean synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Dr. Mundo included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Dr. Mundo had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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