Xayah with Zilean
How to Synergize Xayah and Zilean
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Xayah Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Xayah vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Zilean
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah 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, Xayah 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 worsening shows that Zilean helps Xayah perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah plays on the same team as Zilean, she gets a little decrease in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Zilean doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played 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 alongside Zilean.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Zilean on the same side, she typically receives more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Xayah during teamfights.
Synergies between Xayah and Zilean
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect synergy for Xayah that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, Zilean is a very typical ally for Xayah. By playing on the same team as Xayah, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 46.9%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Xayah and Zilean that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Xayah. That means you should be cautious when finding Zilean allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xayah and Zilean together, you probably will not be granting your side very much magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xayah in order to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Xayah and Zilean synergy build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah included at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Zilean than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Xayah players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
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