Zilean with Tristana
How to Synergize Zilean and Tristana
based on 1,350 Zilean with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Tristana Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Zilean Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Tristana helps Zilean perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Tristana, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Tristana helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Tristana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Tristana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tristana.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Tristana on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Zilean in teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Tristana
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zilean that will always be his ideal ally. However, Tristana is a very typical ally for Zilean. By playing on the same team as Zilean, she decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Zilean and Tristana that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Tristana teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zilean and Tristana together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to pair well with Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Zilean and Tristana synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Tristana than with many other common builds. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Zilean players 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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