Syndra vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Syndra
based on 1,015 Syndra vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Zilean
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Syndra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Syndra vs. Zilean matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zilean. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Syndra typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Syndra and Zilean
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Who is Better, Syndra or Zilean?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Syndra makes a bad counter for Zilean.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when facing one another, Syndra also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Syndra into Zileanas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Syndra has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Syndra is a bad counter to Zilean. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Syndra against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Syndra to counter Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra often gets much more CS relative to Zilean. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Syndra versus Zilean build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Zilean than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 46.8% battling Zilean with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Zilean as Syndra, Syndra players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Syndra vs Zilean counters, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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