Fiddlesticks with Zilean
How to Synergize Fiddlesticks and Zilean
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Fiddlesticks Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Fiddlesticks and Zilean
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.
Fiddlesticks Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Fiddlesticks in LoL
The Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zilean helps Fiddlesticks perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Fiddlesticks tries to synergize with Zilean, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Zilean provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Fiddlesticks plays with Zilean on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Fiddlesticks in team fights.
Synergies between Fiddlesticks and Zilean
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Is Fiddlesticks better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Fiddlesticks that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Zilean is a not very good ally for Fiddlesticks. By playing on the same team as Fiddlesticks, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Fiddlesticks and Zilean that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zilean has a much lower diffuclty than Fiddlesticks. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Zilean comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Fiddlesticks players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Fiddlesticks and Zilean together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Fiddlesticks in order to synergize with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Fiddlesticks and Zilean synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Zilean than with many other typical builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average win rate of 47.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Fiddlesticks players should take the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Fiddlesticks and Zilean pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Zilean with Fiddlesticks are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.