Zilean vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Zilean
based on 743 Zilean vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Gragas
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 Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Zilean vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Zilean in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Zilean versus Gragas matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gragas. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Zilean usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Gragas. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Gragas
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Who is Better, Zilean or Gragas?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zilean usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gragas, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Zilean makes an ok counter to Gragas.
While Zilean does have a lower winrate compared to Gragas, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zilean into Gragas.
Furthermore, Zilean has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Gragas matchups, Gragas is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zilean is a somewhat poor counter to Gragas. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention 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.
Zilean typically accumulates less CS relative to Gragas. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Zilean versus Gragas build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Gragas than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 49.7% battling Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Gragas as Zilean, Zilean players should equip 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 that we analyzed for Zilean vs Gragas counters, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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