Samira with Zilean
How to Synergize Samira and Zilean
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Samira Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Zilean
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.
Samira Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira 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 Samira perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira plays on the same team as Zilean, she sees a little decrease in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Zilean does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Moreover, when Samira plays with Zilean on the same team, she often receives more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Samira in teamfights.
Synergies between Samira and Zilean
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Is Samira better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top ally for Samira that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Zilean is a relatively poor companion for Samira. By locking into the same team as Samira, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 46.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Samira and Zilean that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Zilean allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Samira players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Samira and Zilean together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira to synergize with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Samira and Zilean synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 46.8% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Taste of Blood, 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 sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Zilean with Samira are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.