Illaoi with Zilean
How to Synergize Illaoi and Zilean
based on 749 Illaoi with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Zilean
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Illaoi perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is an ally to Zilean, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Zilean helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Zilean on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Illaoi in team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Zilean
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best ally for Illaoi that will no matter what be her best ally. However, Zilean is a very typical companion for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 49.4%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Illaoi and Zilean that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players need to be very careful when lining up Zilean allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Illaoi and Zilean together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to pair well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Illaoi and Zilean synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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