Shyvana with Zilean
How to Synergize Shyvana and Zilean
based on 576 Shyvana with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Zilean
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zilean helps Shyvana perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana plays on the same team as Zilean, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This could indicate that Zilean provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Zilean on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Shyvana during team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Zilean
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal ally for Shyvana that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, Zilean is a relatively poor ally for Shyvana. By being on the same side as Shyvana, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Shyvana and Zilean that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means you must be very careful when lining up Zilean allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Shyvana and Zilean together, you probably will not be giving your team enough support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana to synergize with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Shyvana and Zilean synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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