Ezreal with Zilean
How to Synergize Ezreal and Zilean
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Ezreal Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Ezreal vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ezreal and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Ezreal with Zilean
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Ezreal in LoL
The Ezreal 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, Ezreal sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zilean helps Ezreal perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ezreal is paired with Zilean, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Zilean helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ezreal is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Ezreal plays with Zilean on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Ezreal in team fights.
Synergies between Ezreal and Zilean
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Is Ezreal better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Ezreal that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a good companion for Ezreal. By locking into the same team as Ezreal, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Ezreal and Zilean that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Ezreal. That means Ezreal players don't need to be cautious when lining up Zilean comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Ezreal and Zilean together, you will not be granting your other teammates much cover. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ezreal in order to work well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Ezreal and Zilean synergy build include Muramana, Spear of Shojin, and Serylda's Grudge. When Ezreal included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Zilean than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ezreal boasted an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Ezreal players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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