Zilean vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Zilean
based on 589 Zilean vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Anivia
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Advice to Win Against Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Zilean vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some important Zilean vs. Anivia matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Anivia. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zilean often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Anivia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Anivia
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Who is Better, Zilean or Anivia?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Anivia, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Zilean makes an ok counter to Anivia.
While Zilean does have a lower winrate compared to Anivia, when facing one another, Zilean also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zilean into Anivia.
Additionally, Zilean also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zilean is a somewhat poor counter for Anivia. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to counter Anivia during both the lane 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 listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean on average gets less CS compared to Anivia. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Zilean versus Anivia build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Anivia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Anivia with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Anivia as Zilean, Zilean players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Zilean vs Anivia fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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