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.
The Zilean Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zeri helps Zilean perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Zeri, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Zeri does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Zeri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zeri.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Zeri on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zeri does a poor job of protecting Zilean in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Zilean that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Zeri is a not very good companion for Zilean. By being on the same team as Zilean, they lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Zilean and Zeri that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zeri has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Zeri comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zilean players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Zilean and Zeri together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zeri ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Zilean in order to pair well with Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Zilean and Zeri synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zeri than with most other common builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zeri with this build.
To have the best chance 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. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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