Lux vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Lux
based on 4,356 Lux vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Zilean
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Lux against Zilean counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zilean..
Lux typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Zilean. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Zilean
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Who is Better, Lux or Zilean?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when playing against Zilean, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Lux makes an ok counter for Zilean.
While Lux does have a higher win rate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, Lux also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Lux into Zilean.
Moreover, Lux has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Lux vs Zilean matchups, Lux is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Lux is a decent counter for Zilean. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lux against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lux to counter Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux on average gets more CS as Zilean. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Lux versus Zilean build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lux combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Zilean than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Zilean as Lux, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Lux vs Zilean face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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