Irelia with Zilean
How to Synergize Irelia and Zilean
based on 1,200 Irelia with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Zilean Counter Build
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Core Irelia Items
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Zilean
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Irelia perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia is an ally to Zilean, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Zilean provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia 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 synergisticly with Zilean.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Zilean on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Irelia in team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Zilean
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, Zilean is a decent companion for Irelia. By locking into the same side as Irelia, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Irelia and Zilean that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players need to be careful when enlisting Zilean comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Irelia and Zilean together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Irelia in order to pair well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Irelia and Zilean synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Irelia and Zilean pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Zilean with Irelia are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.