Zilean vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Zilean
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Zilean vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Zilean vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Zilean in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several vital Zilean versus Draven matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Draven’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Draven. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zilean typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Draven. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Draven
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Who is Better, Zilean or Draven?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zilean usually wins when facing off against Draven, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Zilean makes a good counter for Draven.
While Zilean does have a higher winrate than Draven, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zilean into Draven.
Furthermore, Zilean has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Draven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Draven matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zilean is a decent counter to Draven. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to counter Draven during both the lane 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 mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean usually picks up a lot less CS compared to Draven. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zilean versus Draven build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Draven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 51.5% battling Draven with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Draven as Zilean, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Zilean vs Draven counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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