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.
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
The Zilean Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Soraka helps Zilean perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Soraka, he sees a very large increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Soraka supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Soraka 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 synergisticly with Soraka.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Soraka on the same team, he on average takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Soraka does a poor job of covering Zilean in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Zilean that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Soraka is a very bad companion for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, she drops their win rate by -4.4% to 46.3%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Zilean and Soraka that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be very careful when arranging Soraka allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Zilean and Soraka together, you will not be providing your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to work well with Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Zilean and Soraka synergy build include Redemption, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Zilean used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Soraka than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when playing alongside Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Zilean and Soraka pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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