Zilean vs Viego
How to Beat Viego as Zilean
based on 1,591 Zilean vs Viego matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Viego Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Viego Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viego as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Viego
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.
Zilean vs Viego Counter Stats
How to Counter Viego with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Zilean versus Viego matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viego’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Viego. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zilean typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Viego. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zilean and Viego
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Who is Better, Zilean or Viego?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually loses when facing off against Viego, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Zilean makes a bad counter to Viego.
While Zilean does have a lower winrate than Viego, when they face off with one another, Zilean also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Zilean into Viego.
Furthermore, Zilean also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viego. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Viego matchups, Viego 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 team fights.
Zilean is a somewhat poor counter to Viego. Make sure you focus 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 Viego.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zilean in order to counter Viego during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean usually racks up more CS as Viego. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zilean versus Viego build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Viego than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Viego with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Viego 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 rune builds that we analyzed for Zilean vs Viego fights, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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