Zilean vs Qiyana
How to Beat Qiyana as Zilean
based on 615 Zilean vs Qiyana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Qiyana Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Qiyana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Qiyana as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Qiyana
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 Qiyana Counter Stats
How to Counter Qiyana with Zilean in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Zilean versus Qiyana counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Qiyana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Qiyana. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Zilean often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Qiyana. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Qiyana
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Who is Better, Zilean or Qiyana?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zilean usually wins when playing against Qiyana, with a 53.7% win rate. As a result, Zilean makes a great counter for Qiyana.
While Zilean does have a higher win rate than Qiyana, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Zilean into Qiyana.
Additionally, Zilean also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Qiyana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Qiyana matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zilean is a great counter to Qiyana. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Qiyana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zilean in order to counter Qiyana during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean typically picks up less CS relative to Qiyana. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Zilean versus Qiyana build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Qiyana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 53.7% when countering Qiyana with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Qiyana 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. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Zilean vs Qiyana counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.7% win rate overall.
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