Zilean vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Zilean
based on 1,496 Zilean vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Zilean vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some vital Zilean versus Katarina counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Katarina. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zilean normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Katarina. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zilean and Katarina
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Who is Better, Zilean or Katarina?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually wins when taking on Katarina, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Zilean makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Zilean does have a higher winrate than Katarina, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Zilean into Katarina.
Moreover, Zilean has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Katarina matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zilean is an above average counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to counter Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean often picks up less CS relative to Katarina. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zilean versus Katarina build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Katarina than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 52.1% when playing against Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Katarina as Zilean, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Zilean vs Katarina battles, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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