Twitch vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Twitch
based on 1,749 Twitch vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Twitch vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Twitch vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Twitch
Tips for Playing as Twitch against Zilean
Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
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.
Twitch vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Twitch in LoL
The stats shown here feature several valuable Twitch against Zilean counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Twitch’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Twitch may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Twitch normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Twitch and Zilean
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Who is Better, Twitch or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Twitch usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Twitch makes a poor counter for Zilean.
While Twitch does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when facing one another, Twitch also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Twitch into Zilean.
Moreover, Twitch has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Twitch vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Twitch is a terribly counter to Zilean. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Twitch against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Twitch to counter Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Twitch often gets more CS as Zilean. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Twitch versus Zilean build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Twitch used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Zilean than with most other common builds. In fact, Twitch had an average winrate of 47.9% battling Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Zilean as Twitch, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Twitch vs Zilean LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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