Nilah vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Nilah
based on 643 Nilah vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Nilah in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several significant Nilah vs. Zilean matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Zilean. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nilah usually has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Zilean. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nilah and Zilean
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Who is Better, Nilah or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when trying to fight Zilean, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Nilah makes a good counter to Zilean.
While Nilah does have a higher win rate than Zilean, when facing one another, Nilah also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nilah into Zileanas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nilah also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Zilean matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nilah is a decent counter for Zilean. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nilah against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nilah in order to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah most often accumulates more CS compared to Zilean. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nilah versus Zilean build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah bought at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better vs Zilean than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nilah had an average win rate of 51.8% when countering Zilean with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Zilean as Nilah, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nilah vs Zilean counter picks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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