Jayce with Zilean
How to Synergize Jayce and Zilean
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Jayce Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jayce and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Jayce with Zilean
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Jayce in LoL
The Jayce 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, Jayce sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean helps Jayce perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jayce tries to synergize with Zilean, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This may indicate that Zilean supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Jayce is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zilean.
Additionally, when Jayce plays with Zilean on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Jayce in team fights.
Synergies between Jayce and Zilean
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Is Jayce better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best champion pairing for Jayce that will always be his best teammate. However, Zilean is a decent ally for Jayce. By locking into the same side as Jayce, he raises their win rate by 1.4% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Jayce and Zilean that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Jayce. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Zilean teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Jayce players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Jayce and Zilean together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough engage potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jayce in order to work well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Jayce and Zilean synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Jayce included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Jayce boasted an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Zilean with Jayce are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.