Kalista with Zilean
How to Synergize Kalista and Zilean
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Kalista Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Zilean
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack 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.
Kalista Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista 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 drop shows that Zilean helps Kalista perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Zilean, she gets a little increase in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zilean helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Zilean on the same side, she on average receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Kalista during teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Zilean
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kalista that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, Zilean is a decent teammate for Kalista. By playing on the same side as Kalista, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Kalista and Zilean that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be very careful when arranging Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kalista and Zilean together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much engage potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kalista to synergize with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Kalista and Zilean synergy build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Zilean than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kalista and Zilean pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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