Yasuo with Zilean
How to Synergize Yasuo and Zilean
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Yasuo Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Zilean
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Yasuo perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yasuo is paired with Zilean, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Zilean helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Moreover, when Yasuo plays with Zilean on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Yasuo during teamfights.
Synergies between Yasuo and Zilean
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top companion for Yasuo that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Zilean is a very typical ally for Yasuo. By locking into the same team as Yasuo, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 51.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Yasuo and Zilean that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Zilean has a much lower diffuclty than Yasuo. That means Yasuo players don't need to be careful when lining up Zilean comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Yasuo players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Yasuo and Zilean together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of cover. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo to work well with Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Yasuo and Zilean synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Yasuo players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
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