Naafiri with Zilean
How to Synergize Naafiri and Zilean
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Naafiri Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Zilean
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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.
Naafiri Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri 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, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their 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 Naafiri perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri plays on the same team as Zilean, they sees a little increase in their total damage output. This difference may indicate that Zilean supports by providing protection for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Zilean.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Zilean on the same team, they on average takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Naafiri during team fights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal ally for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their ideal synergy. However, overall, Zilean is a pretty good teammate for Naafiri. By locking into the same side as Naafiri, he increases their win rate by 2.8% to 53.0%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Naafiri and Zilean that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Zilean has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means you should be very careful when finding Zilean teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by pairing Naafiri and Zilean together, you may not be giving your team much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to synergize with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Naafiri and Zilean synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri combined at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better as an ally of Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Zilean with Naafiri are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.