Zilean vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Zilean
based on 2,191 Zilean vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Morgana Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Morgana
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 Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Zilean vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Zilean in LoL
The stats shown here show some important Zilean vs. Morgana counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Morgana..
Zilean usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Morgana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Zilean or Morgana?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually fairs equally well when taking on Morgana, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Zilean makes an ok counter to Morgana.
While Zilean does have a higher winrate than Morgana, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Zilean into Morgana.
Furthermore, Zilean also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Morgana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Morgana matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Zilean is a decent counter to Morgana. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Morgana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zilean to counter Morgana during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Morgana. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Zilean versus Morgana build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Solstice Sleigh. When Zilean bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Morgana than with many other common builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 50.6% when countering Morgana with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Morgana as Zilean, you 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 rune builds players picked for Zilean vs Morgana counters, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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