Zilean vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Zilean
based on 1,620 Zilean vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Zilean vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several valuable Zilean versus Rengar matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rengar. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zilean typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Rengar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Rengar
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Who is Better, Zilean or Rengar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually wins when playing against Rengar, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Zilean makes a good counter to Rengar.
While Zilean does have a higher win rate compared to Rengar, when on opposite teams, Zilean also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zilean into Rengar.
Moreover, Zilean also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Rengar matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zilean is a decent counter for Rengar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to counter Rengar during both the laning 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Rengar. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Zilean versus Rengar build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Rengar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when playing against Rengar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Rengar as Zilean, you should use 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 combinations players used for Zilean vs Rengar matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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