Zilean vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Zilean
based on 1,505 Zilean vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Leona
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.
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Zilean vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several valuable Zilean vs. Leona counter stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona..
Zilean often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zilean and Leona
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Who is Better, Zilean or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zilean usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Zilean makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Zilean does have a lower win rate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Zilean also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Zilean into Leona.
Moreover, Zilean also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zilean is a bad counter for Leona. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zilean to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean most often gets more CS as Leona. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zilean versus Leona build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Leona than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Leona as Zilean, Zilean players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Zilean vs Leona counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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