Thresh with Zilean
How to Synergize Thresh and Zilean
based on 222 Thresh with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Zilean
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Thresh sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Thresh perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is an ally to Zilean, he gets a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Zilean helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Additionally, when Thresh plays with Zilean on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Thresh in teamfights.
Synergies between Thresh and Zilean
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top synergy for Thresh that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Zilean is a terrible ally for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, he lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 45.0%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Thresh and Zilean that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Thresh players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Thresh and Zilean together, you may not be granting your other allies very much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to work well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Thresh and Zilean synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 45.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.0% win rate overall.
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