Poppy with Zilean
How to Synergize Poppy and Zilean
based on 672 Poppy with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Zilean
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy 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 Poppy perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy plays on the same team as Zilean, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Zilean supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Zilean on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Poppy in teamfights.
Synergies between Poppy and Zilean
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best champion pairing for Poppy that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, overall, Zilean is a terrible ally for Poppy. By being on the same side as Poppy, he decreases their win rate by -4.5% to 45.2%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Poppy and Zilean that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be cautious when lining up Zilean comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Poppy and Zilean together, you will not be providing your other teammates much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Poppy in order to pair well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Poppy and Zilean synergy build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Poppy used at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 45.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
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