Singed vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Singed
based on 1,046 Singed vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Singed vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Singed vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Singed
Tips for Playing as Singed against Zilean
Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
Singed vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Singed in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some vital Singed against Zilean counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zilean..
Singed usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Zilean. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Singed and Zilean
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Who is Better, Singed or Zilean?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Singed usually loses when facing off against Zilean, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Singed makes a bad counter for Zilean.
While Singed does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when on opposite teams, Singed also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Singed into Zilean.
Furthermore, Singed also has only a small 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Singed 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 teamfights.
Singed is a bad counter for Zilean. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Singed against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Singed to counter Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed on average picks up much more CS compared to Zilean. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Singed versus Zilean build consist of Dead Man's Plate, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Singed combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Zilean than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Singed had an average win rate of 48.0% battling Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Zilean as Singed, Singed players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Singed vs Zilean counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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