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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Zilean Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Orianna helps Zilean perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean is an ally to Orianna, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Orianna does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Orianna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Orianna on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Orianna does a poor job of covering Zilean in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Zilean that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Orianna is a terrible ally for Zilean. By being on the same team as Zilean, she decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 47.6%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Zilean and Orianna that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means you must be very careful when finding Orianna allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Zilean players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zilean and Orianna together, you may not be granting your team very much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Zilean in order to pair well with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Zilean and Orianna synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Orianna than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Orianna with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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