Zilean with Xayah
How to Synergize Zilean and Xayah
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Zilean Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Zilean Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Zilean perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Xayah, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Xayah provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Xayah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xayah.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Xayah on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Xayah does a poor job of protecting Zilean in teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Xayah
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no perfect synergy for Zilean that will always be his best synergy. However, Xayah is a terrible teammate for Zilean. By playing on the same team as Zilean, she drops their win rate by -3.8% to 46.9%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Zilean and Xayah that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be very careful when lining up Xayah comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Zilean and Xayah together, you will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xayah teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to work well with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Zilean and Xayah synergy build include 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 Xayah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 46.9% helping carry Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
If you want to see Zilean and Xayah collaboration tips and builds for a a distinct skill level, feel free to choose one from the selection menu above. By default, the stats and tips and suggestions displayed are calculated using every match played with both champs.