Kai'Sa vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Kai'Sa
based on 1,859 Kai'Sa vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Zilean
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Kai'Sa vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some critical Kai'Sa vs. Zilean matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zilean. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Zilean
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Zilean, with a 44.2% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter for Zilean.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower winrate than Zilean, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Zilean.
Additionally, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter for Zilean. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa on average racks up much more CS compared to Zilean. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Zilean build include Nashor's Tooth, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Zilean than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 44.2% battling Zilean with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Zilean as Kai'Sa, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Zilean fights, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Zilean as Kai'Sa are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.