Twisted Fate vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Twisted Fate
based on 1,733 Twisted Fate vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Twisted Fate vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Twisted Fate vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Twisted Fate
Tips for Playing as Twisted Fate against Zilean
Twisted Fate is viable as an Attack Damage or Ability Power character, letting him fit on many different team compositions.
Stealth characters often escape a battle with very low hit points. Take advantage of Destiny's ability to reveal stealthed units to finish them off.
Coordinate with your allies for the best time to use Destiny to ambush enemies.
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.
Twisted Fate vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Twisted Fate in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Twisted Fate against Zilean matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Twisted Fate’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Twisted Fate may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zilean. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Twisted Fate usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zilean. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Twisted Fate or Zilean?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Twisted Fate usually wins when playing against Zilean, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Twisted Fate makes a good counter for Zilean.
While Twisted Fate does have a higher win rate than Zilean, when on opposite teams, Twisted Fate also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Twisted Fate into Zileanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Twisted Fate 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Twisted Fate vs Zilean matchups, Twisted Fate is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Twisted Fate is a decent counter for Zilean. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Twisted Fate against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Twisted Fate in order 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twisted Fate often accumulates more CS compared to Zilean. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Twisted Fate versus Zilean build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Rod of Ages. When Twisted Fate used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Zilean than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Twisted Fate boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when countering Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Zilean as Twisted Fate, Twisted Fate players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Minion Dematerializer, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Twisted Fate vs Zilean clashes, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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