Leona with Zilean
How to Synergize Leona and Zilean
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Leona Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Leona with Zilean
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona 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 decrease shows that Zilean helps Leona perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Zilean, she observes a sizeable uptick in her full damage output. This may indicate that Zilean supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with 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 Leona plays with Zilean on the same side, she usually takes significantly more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Leona in team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Zilean
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Is Leona better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect companion for Leona that will always be her top teammate. However, Zilean is a decent teammate for Leona. By being on the same side as Leona, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 53.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Leona and Zilean that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Zilean allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Leona and Zilean together, you probably will not be granting your side much attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to pair well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Leona and Zilean synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 53.2% when playing alongside Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Zilean with Leona are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.