Taliyah vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Taliyah
based on 499 Taliyah vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Zilean
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Taliyah in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential Taliyah vs. Zilean counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Taliyah normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taliyah and Zilean
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when facing off against Zilean, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes a bad counter to Zilean.
While Taliyah does have a lower winrate than Zilean, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Taliyah into Zilean.
Furthermore, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter to Zilean. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah often picks up more CS relative to Zilean. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Taliyah versus Zilean build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Zilean than with most other typical builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average winrate of 48.9% battling Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Zilean as Taliyah, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Taliyah vs Zilean counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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