Tristana with Zilean
How to Synergize Tristana and Zilean
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Tristana Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Zilean
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana 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, Tristana 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 fall shows that Zilean helps Tristana perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tristana is an ally to Zilean, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Zilean supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played together with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zilean.
Additionally, when Tristana plays with Zilean on the same side, she usually takes more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Tristana during teamfights.
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top companion for Tristana that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, overall, Zilean is a pretty good ally for Tristana. By being on the same team as Tristana, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 50.1%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Tristana and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Tristana. That means Tristana players must be careful when arranging Zilean allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Tristana players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Tristana and Zilean together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of engage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tristana in order to pair well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Tristana and Zilean synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Zilean than with many other typical builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Tristana players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Tristana and Zilean pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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