Udyr vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Udyr
based on 1,245 Udyr vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Udyr vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Udyr vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Udyr
Tips for Playing as Udyr against Zilean
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
Udyr vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Udyr in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Udyr versus Zilean matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zilean..
Udyr typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Udyr and Zilean
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Who is Better, Udyr or Zilean?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Udyr usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 46.6% win rate. Therefore, Udyr makes a bad counter for Zilean.
While Udyr does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when they face off with one another, Udyr also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Udyr into Zileanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Udyr also has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Udyr is a trash counter for Zilean. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Udyr against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Udyr to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Zilean. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Udyr versus Zilean build include Force of Nature, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Zilean than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Udyr boasted an average win rate of 46.6% when playing against Zilean with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Zilean as Udyr, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Udyr vs Zilean counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
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