Tristana vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Tristana
based on 1,392 Tristana vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Zilean
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several important Tristana against Zilean matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Tristana normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Zilean
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Who is Better, Tristana or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tristana usually loses when trying to fight Zilean, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes a bad counter for Zilean.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Zilean.
Furthermore, Tristana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Zilean. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Tristana in order to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average gets more CS compared to Zilean. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Tristana versus Zilean build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Zilean than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 48.1% battling Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Zilean as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Tristana vs Zilean counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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