Zilean with Janna
How to Synergize Zilean and Janna
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Zilean Janna Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Janna Counter Build
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Core Zilean Items
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Janna
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Janna
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 Janna Will Play
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Zilean Janna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Janna as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Janna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Janna helps Zilean perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean plays on the same team as Janna, he observes a big jump in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Janna helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Janna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Janna.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Janna on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Janna does a poor job of protecting Zilean in team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Janna
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Janna?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zilean that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Janna is a terrible ally for Zilean. By being on the same side as Zilean, she lowers their win rate by -5.7% to 45.0%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Zilean and Janna that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Janna has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means you should be cautious when arranging Janna teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Zilean and Janna together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Janna ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zilean in order to pair well with Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Zilean and Janna synergy build include Redemption, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Zilean bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Janna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 45.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.0% win rate overall.
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