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.
Dodging Arctic Assault and Glacial Prison can give you a huge advantage.
Focus on avoiding the second swing of Winter's Wrath which carries the brunt of the damage.
Melee enemies can also stack Frost for Sejuani, be very careful around them.
The stats shown here show some influential Zilean against Sejuani counter stats that may help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sejuani’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sejuani..
Zilean often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Sejuani. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zilean usually wins when playing against Sejuani, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Zilean makes a good counter to Sejuani.
While Zilean does have a higher winrate compared to Sejuani, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zilean into Sejuani.
Furthermore, Zilean also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sejuani. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Sejuani matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zilean is a decent counter to Sejuani. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Sejuani.
To truly master Zilean in order to counter Sejuani 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 stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Sejuani. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zilean versus Sejuani build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Sejuani than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 51.9% battling Sejuani with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Sejuani 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 sets we have analyed for Zilean vs Sejuani clashes, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
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