Kindred with Zilean
How to Synergize Kindred and Zilean
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Kindred Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Zilean
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zilean helps Kindred perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kindred plays on the same team as Zilean, they gets a noticable increase in their complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Zilean helps provide cover for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played together with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Kindred plays with Zilean on the same side, they typically receives more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Kindred during team fights.
Synergies between Kindred and Zilean
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect synergy for Kindred that will always be their top synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a very typical ally for Kindred. By locking into the same team as Kindred, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Kindred and Zilean that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Kindred. That means you need to be careful when arranging Zilean teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Kindred players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Kindred and Zilean together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of cover. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kindred to pair well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Kindred and Zilean synergy build include Wit's End, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred incorporated at least these three great items in their build, they did much better when paired up with Zilean than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 48.1% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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