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.
The Nilah 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, Nilah sees a large worsening in their 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 Nilah perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nilah is paired with Zilean, they sees a barely noticable drop in their total damage dealt. This could signal that Zilean does not help cover for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nilah is played together with Zilean on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Nilah plays with Zilean on the same side, they typically receives more damage than when they fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Nilah during teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Nilah that will always be their ideal teammate. However, overall, Zilean is a very typical companion for Nilah. By playing on the same side as Nilah, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Nilah and Zilean that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zilean has a much lower diffuclty than Nilah. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Nilah players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Nilah and Zilean together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of cover. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Nilah in order to work well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Nilah and Zilean synergy build include Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah used at least these three items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nilah had an average winrate of 51.6% when playing alongside Zilean with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Nilah players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
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