Zilean with Lucian
How to Synergize Zilean and Lucian
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Zilean Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Zilean Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lucian helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Lucian, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Lucian provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Lucian. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lucian.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Lucian on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Lucian does a poor job of protecting Zilean during team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Lucian
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no ideal companion for Zilean that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Lucian is a very bad companion for Zilean. By playing on the same team as Zilean, he decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 47.5%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Zilean and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Lucian teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Zilean players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Zilean and Lucian together, you may not be giving your other allies enough attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Zilean to synergize with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Zilean and Lucian synergy build include Morellonomicon, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Lucian than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability 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 sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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