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.
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
The Zilean Warwick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Warwick, 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 Warwick. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Warwick helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is an ally to Warwick, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Warwick supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Warwick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Warwick.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Warwick on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Warwick does a decent job of covering Zilean in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Zilean that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Warwick is a very typical teammate for Zilean. By being on the same team as Zilean, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Zilean and Warwick that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Warwick has a much lower diffuclty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Warwick allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Zilean and Warwick together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of engage potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Warwick ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Zilean to pair well with Warwick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Zilean and Warwick synergy build include Morellonomicon, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Warwick than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Warwick with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Zilean players should equip 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 Zilean and Warwick pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Warwick with Zilean are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.