Zilean with Garen
How to Synergize Zilean and Garen
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Zilean Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Garen
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Zilean Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Zilean perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean plays on the same team as Garen, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Garen helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Garen 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 alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Garen on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Garen does a decent job of protecting Zilean during teamfights.
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Zilean that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Garen is a very typical ally for Zilean. By being on the same team as Zilean, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 50.8%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Zilean and Garen that results in them performing better together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Zilean and Garen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zilean to synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Zilean and Garen synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Solstice Sleigh. When Zilean incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 50.8% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Zilean players should use 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 players chose for Zilean and Garen pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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