Lux with Zilean
How to Synergize Lux and Zilean
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Lux Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Lux with Zilean
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zilean helps Lux perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lux is paired with Zilean, she sees a sizeable uptick in her total damage dealt. This change could signal that Zilean provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zilean.
Additionally, when Lux plays with Zilean on the same side, she usually receives more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Lux during team fights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best champion pairing for Lux that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Zilean is a pretty good companion for Lux. By playing on the same team as Lux, he increases their win rate by 1.4% to 51.2%. This proves that there is a good bond between Lux and Zilean that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Lux. That means you must be careful when enlisting Zilean allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Lux and Zilean together, you probably will not be giving your team much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lux to synergize with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Lux and Zilean synergy build include Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lux bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Zilean than with most other common builds. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 51.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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