Miss Fortune vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Miss Fortune
based on 5,881 Miss Fortune vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Miss Fortune vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Miss Fortune vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Miss Fortune
Tips for Playing as Miss Fortune against Zilean
Miss Fortune ramps up speed if she hasn't recently taken damage. Avoid getting hit to move very fast.
Use Double Up on the furthest enemy minion if enemy champions are hiding in back; it will bounce to them for lots of damage.
Make sure to utilize Love Tap while Strut is on cooldown to maximize the active's availability.
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.
Miss Fortune vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Miss Fortune in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some critical Miss Fortune versus Zilean matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between this set of champs. Miss Fortune’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Miss Fortune may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zilean. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Miss Fortune usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Miss Fortune and Zilean
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Who is Better, Miss Fortune or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Miss Fortune usually wins when playing against Zilean, with a 53.2% win rate. As a result, Miss Fortune makes a great counter to Zilean.
While Miss Fortune does have a higher winrate compared to Zilean, when on opposite teams, Miss Fortune also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Miss Fortune into Zilean.
Additionally, Miss Fortune has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Miss Fortune vs Zilean matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Miss Fortune is a great counter to Zilean. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Miss Fortune against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Miss Fortune to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Miss Fortune on average accumulates more CS compared to Zilean. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Miss Fortune versus Zilean build include The Collector, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Miss Fortune bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Zilean than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Miss Fortune boasted an average win rate of 53.2% battling Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Zilean as Miss Fortune, Miss Fortune players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Miss Fortune vs Zilean clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.2% win rate overall.
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