Neeko vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Neeko
based on 1,247 Neeko vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Neeko vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Neeko vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Neeko
Tips for Playing as Neeko against Zilean
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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.
Neeko vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Neeko in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several influential Neeko vs. Zilean counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Neeko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Neeko may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zilean..
Neeko typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Neeko and Zilean
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Who is Better, Neeko or Zilean?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Neeko usually loses when facing off against Zilean, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Neeko makes a bad counter for Zilean.
While Neeko does have a lower win rate compared to Zilean, when facing one another, Neeko also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Neeko into Zilean.
Furthermore, Neeko also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Neeko vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Neeko is a terribly counter to Zilean. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Neeko against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Neeko in order to counter Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Neeko often racks up more CS as Zilean. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Neeko versus Zilean build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Neeko included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Zilean than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Neeko boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when playing against Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Zilean as Neeko, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Neeko vs Zilean LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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