Irelia vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Irelia
based on 1,168 Irelia vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Zilean
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some significant Irelia against Zilean counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in killsdeaths.
Irelia typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Zilean
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Who is Better, Irelia or Zilean?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zilean, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes an ok counter to Zilean.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate than Zilean, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Zilean.
Additionally, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Zilean matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Irelia is a decent counter to Zilean. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually gets much more CS compared to Zilean. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Irelia versus Zilean build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 50.5% battling Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Zilean as Irelia, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Irelia vs Zilean counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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