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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some influential Zilean versus Singed matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Singed’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Singed. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zilean typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Singed. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually wins when playing against Singed, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Zilean makes a good counter to Singed.
While Zilean does have a higher winrate compared to Singed, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Zilean into Singed.
Additionally, Zilean has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Singed matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zilean is a decent counter for Singed. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Singed.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to counter Singed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean typically gets a lot less CS as Singed. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Zilean versus Singed build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Singed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 52.0% when playing against Singed with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Singed 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 runes that we analyzed for Zilean vs Singed clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Singed as Zilean are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.