Aatrox vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Aatrox
based on 2,341 Aatrox vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aatrox vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Aatrox vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Aatrox against Zilean
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Win Against Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Aatrox vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Aatrox in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several influential Aatrox versus Zilean counter stats that can help you realize the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zilean. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Aatrox normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Zilean. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aatrox and Zilean
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Who is Better, Aatrox or Zilean?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Zilean, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Aatrox makes an ok counter to Zilean.
While Aatrox does have a lower winrate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, Aatrox also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Aatrox into Zilean.
Furthermore, Aatrox has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Aatrox is a somewhat poor counter to Zilean. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Aatrox against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aatrox in order to counter Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox on average gets much more CS compared to Zilean. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Aatrox versus Zilean build include Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Zilean than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 49.5% battling Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Zilean as Aatrox, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Aatrox vs Zilean counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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