Trundle with Zilean
How to Synergize Trundle and Zilean
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Trundle Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Trundle and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Trundle with Zilean
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Trundle in LoL
The Trundle 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, Trundle sees a large worsening 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 Trundle perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Trundle is an ally to Zilean, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Zilean helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Trundle is played alongside Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Moreover, when Trundle plays with Zilean on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Trundle in team fights.
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Is Trundle better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best companion for Trundle that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Zilean is a pretty good ally for Trundle. By locking into the same team as Trundle, he increases their win rate by 2.9% to 55.6%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Trundle and Zilean that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Trundle. That means you should be very careful when arranging Zilean comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Trundle players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by aligning Trundle and Zilean together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Trundle in order to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Trundle and Zilean synergy build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Thornmail, and Hullbreaker. When Trundle combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Zilean than with many other common item sets. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 55.6% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Trundle players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Trundle and Zilean pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.6% winrate overall.
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