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.
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
The Zilean Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rumble helps Zilean perform not as well 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 Rumble, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Rumble doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Rumble on the same team, 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 Rumble.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Rumble on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Rumble does a poor job of covering Zilean in team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Zilean that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Rumble is a relatively poor teammate for Zilean. By locking into the same side as Zilean, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Zilean and Rumble that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rumble has a much greater difficulty compared to Zilean. That means Zilean players need to be very careful when arranging Rumble comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Zilean and Rumble together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Rumble ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to pair well with Rumble during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Zilean and Rumble synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Rumble than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Rumble with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take 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 combinations players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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