Zilean vs Lillia
How to Beat Lillia as Zilean
based on 2,714 Zilean vs Lillia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Lillia Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Lillia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lillia as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Lillia
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.
Zilean vs Lillia Counter Stats
How to Counter Lillia with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several vital Zilean vs. Lillia counter stats that can help you realize the distinctions between this set of champions. Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lillia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lillia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zilean typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Lillia. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Lillia
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Who is Better, Zilean or Lillia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zilean usually loses when facing off against Lillia, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Zilean makes a bad counter for Lillia.
While Zilean does have a lower win rate than Lillia, when facing one another, Zilean also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zilean into Lillia.
Moreover, Zilean also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lillia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Lillia matchups, Lillia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zilean is a bad counter to Lillia. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zilean against Lillia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to counter Lillia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Lillia. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well 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 numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zilean versus Lillia build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Zilean incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Lillia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing against Lillia with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Lillia as Zilean, Zilean players 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 rune sets that we analyzed for Zilean vs Lillia counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lillia as Zilean are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.