Zilean with Varus
How to Synergize Zilean and Varus
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Zilean Varus Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Varus
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Zilean Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Varus helps Zilean perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is an ally to Varus, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Varus doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Varus.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Varus on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Varus does a decent job of covering Zilean in teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Varus
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Varus?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Varus is a very typical companion for Zilean. By locking into the same team as Zilean, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 50.1%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Zilean and Varus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be cautious when finding Varus comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zilean and Varus together, you may not be granting your team very much engage potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to pair well with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Zilean and Varus synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Solstice Sleigh. When Zilean incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Varus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Varus with this build.
To have the best probability 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 chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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