Taliyah with Zilean
How to Synergize Taliyah and Zilean
based on 448 Taliyah with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taliyah Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Taliyah vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taliyah and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Taliyah with Zilean
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Taliyah in LoL
The Taliyah 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, Taliyah sees a very large drop 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 Taliyah perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taliyah plays on the same team as Zilean, she observes a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zilean supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played alongside Zilean on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Taliyah plays with Zilean on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Taliyah during teamfights.
Synergies between Taliyah and Zilean
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Is Taliyah better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect companion for Taliyah that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a very typical companion for Taliyah. By locking into the same team as Taliyah, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 48.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Taliyah and Zilean that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Taliyah. That means Taliyah players must be cautious when lining up Zilean allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Taliyah players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Taliyah and Zilean together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Taliyah to synergize with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Taliyah and Zilean synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Zilean than with most other typical builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 48.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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