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.
Catching Milio with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Milio.
Milio's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Zilean versus Milio counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Milio’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Milio..
Zilean often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Milio. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zilean usually loses when facing off against Milio, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Zilean makes a bad counter for Milio.
While Zilean does have a lower winrate than Milio, when on opposite teams, Zilean also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zilean into Milio.
Moreover, Zilean also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Milio. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Milio matchups, Milio is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zilean is a bad counter for Milio. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Milio.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to counter Milio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean typically picks up more CS compared to Milio. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zilean versus Milio build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Milio than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Milio with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Milio 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. Out of all the runes players chose for Zilean vs Milio face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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