Versuche die sehr große Reichweite von „Durchdringender Pfeil“ auszunutzen, um gegnerische Champions zu treffen, solange diese noch außer Reichweite sind oder wenn sie sich bereits zurückziehen.
Schaltest du „Verdorbener Köcher“ früh frei, kann dir das dabei helfen, gegnerischen Champions zuzusetzen oder Todesstöße gegen Vasallen zu erzielen.
Bei Kämpfen auf kurze Distanz kann es manchmal besser sein, „Durchdringender Pfeil“ schnell einzusetzen, anstatt diesen erst komplett zu laden.
Zilean ist sehr schwach, wenn er von einem Team angegriffen wird, ansonsten aber sehr schwer zu töten. Versuche ihn daher als Team anzugreifen.
Wenn du Zilean auf den Fersen bleiben kannst, dann ist es manchmal sinnvoll zu warten, bis seine ultimative Fähigkeit nicht mehr wirkt, bevor du ihm den Todesstoß versetzt.
The stats shown on this page clarify several critical Varus against Zilean matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zilean. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Varus often has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Varus usually loses when playing against Zilean, with a 45.5% win rate. Thus, Varus makes a bad counter to Zilean.
While Varus does have a much lower win rate compared to Zilean, when on opposite teams, Varus also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Varus into Zilean.
Furthermore, Varus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Varus vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Varus is a bad counter to Zilean. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Zilean.
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus to counter Zilean 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 suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus most often accumulates much more CS as Zilean. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Varus versus Zilean build include Muramana, Youmus Geistklinge, and Seryldas Bitterkeit. When Varus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 45.5% when countering Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Zilean as Varus, you should take the Klingenhagel, Geschmack von Blut, Argus' Vermächtnis, Ultimativer Jäger, Absoluter Fokus, and Aufziehender Sturm runes from the Dominanz and Zauberei rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Varus vs Zilean counters, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.5% winrate overall.
If you want to see Varus versus Zilean tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a an individual skill level, feel free to choose one from the selection menu above. By default, the statistics and strategies given are computed using all games played with both champs.