Qiyana vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Qiyana
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Qiyana vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Qiyana vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Qiyana
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.
Qiyana vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Qiyana in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Qiyana vs. Zilean counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zilean. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Qiyana normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Zilean. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Qiyana and Zilean
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Who is Better, Qiyana or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Qiyana makes a bad counter to Zilean.
While Qiyana does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when they face off with one another, Qiyana also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Qiyana into Zileanas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Qiyana also has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Qiyana vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Qiyana is a garbage counter to Zilean. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Qiyana against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Qiyana in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana often gets more CS compared to Zilean. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Qiyana versus Zilean build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Qiyana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Qiyana had an average win rate of 46.3% when playing against Zilean with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Zilean as Qiyana, Qiyana players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Qiyana vs Zilean LoL games, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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