Zilean with Graves
How to Synergize Zilean and Graves
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Zilean Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Graves
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Graves
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.
Advice to Understand How Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Zilean Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zilean sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Zilean perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean is paired with Graves, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Graves doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Graves on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Zilean in team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Graves
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Graves?
There is no top ally for Zilean that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Graves is a good companion for Zilean. By being on the same team as Zilean, he raises their win rate by 2.2% to 52.9%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Zilean and Graves that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be very careful when lining up Graves comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zilean and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to pair well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Zilean and Graves synergy build include Morellonomicon, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Zilean and Graves pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Graves with Zilean are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.