Zilean with Irelia
How to Synergize Zilean and Irelia
based on 1,200 Zilean with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Zilean Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Irelia helps Zilean perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean plays on the same team as Irelia, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Irelia does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Irelia.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Irelia on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Zilean in teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Irelia
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no perfect ally for Zilean that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Irelia is a pretty good companion for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, she improves their win rate by 1.1% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Zilean and Irelia that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Irelia comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Zilean and Irelia together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zilean in order to synergize with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Zilean and Irelia synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Irelia than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Zilean players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
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