Support · 241 games · EUW

Zilean

Support · 79% of games Mid · 10%Top · 10%

Strongest when games end at 30–35 minutes (58%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−104 gold), and still wins 56%.

Win rate: 55.6%; ±6.3 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: S; #3 of 48
Pick rate: 3.7%; ban 2.8%
Games: 241; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Zilean support wins 55.6% of 241 ranked games in EUW, rank 3 of 48 support champions (tier S). Most players finish Shurelya's Battlesong first, at about 14:12.

The build at a glance

What most Zilean players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 8:48 · 90% of games

Item 1

Shurelya's Battlesong 14:00 · 47% · 107 games

Item 2

Imperial Mandate 21:06 · 21% · 17 games

Item 3 · late game

Mikael's Blessing 29:06 · 13 of 60 games

Runes

Summon Aery · Sorcery + Domination 12% of games · 64% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 95% of games · 55% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 85% of games · 56% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Time Warp first 51% of games · 57% wins Skill orders →

When Zilean wins

Best when games end at 30–35′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′54% wins38% of games · 91

Lasts 25′ or more57% wins60% of games · 144

Lanes

Watch out for Karma, Sona, Thresh

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Zilean games

First Baron: 89% against 40%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 40% 89% +49

First tower 36% 81% +44

Rift Herald 45% 69% +24

First dragon 46% 68% +21

First Voidgrubs 48% 63% +15

First blood 53% 59% +6

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Zilean plays

Fewer multikills, fewer solo kills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average support. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer multikills a game0.03 against 0.09 · −67%

Fewer solo kills a game0.1 against 0.2 · −39%

Less damage a minute230 against 368 · −37%

Less share of team damage7% against 10% · −34%

Fewer deaths a game4.2 against 6.1 · −30%

About average: gold, vision.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~14:00

Item 2done ~22:00

Item 3done ~28:36

Item 4done ~32:06

Most common full builds

Shurelya's Battlesong › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Locket of the Iron Solari › Knight's Vow 75.0%4 games

Locket of the Iron Solari › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Mikael's Blessing › Knight's Vow 33.3%3 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Shurelya's Battlesong › Bandlepipes › Mikael's Blessing 66.7%3 games

Shurelya's Battlesong › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Bandlepipes › Locket of the Iron Solari 66.7%3 games

Locket of the Iron Solari › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Knight's Vow › Mikael's Blessing 66.7%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Imperial Mandate 82%11

Knight's Vow 65%23

Bandlepipes 61%18

Locket of the Iron Solari 53%15

Mikael's Blessing 38%16

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Health Potion + Health Potion55.2%230

Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion66.7%3

Boots + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%2

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~8:4856.2%217

Boots of Swiftness ~8:5462.5%16

Plated Steelcaps ~6:3633.3%3

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal56.1%205

Exhaust + Flash50.0%32

Flash + Ignite75.0%4

Skills

Max

Q56.9%123

Max

W56.0%75

Start

E54.2%179

Start

W62.1%58

Hard lanes

Watch out for Karma, Sona, Thresh

Easy lanes

Good into Rell, Lulu, Nautilus

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 7 of 10, still wins 4 of them

Expected: what Zilean's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (15)

Rakan 57% · 7

Pyke 43% · 7

Senna 33% · 6

Yuumi 60% · 5

Zoe 60% · 5

Blitzcrank 20% · 5

Milio 50% · 4

Alistar 50% · 4

Soraka 75% · 4

Elise 67% · 3

Renata Glasc 33% · 3

Seraphine 67% · 3

Braum 67% · 3

Taric 33% · 3

Camille 33% · 3

Zilean vs Lulu · 25 games · Fair sample

Zilean does better than expected here

68%winsexpected 54%

−182gold at 15′average −104

+2.8minions at 10′ahead or behind

24%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.16 a game

Gold lead against Lulu Zilean's average lead

Against Lulu, Zilean is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 54% of games, and still wins 69% of those. When ahead, Zilean wins 73%.

Ahead at 15′73% wins11 games

Behind at 15′69% wins13 games

Full Zilean vs Lulu page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Zilean games: Locke, Ezreal

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Camille67% · exp. 54% +1315 games

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble

Locke50% · exp. 56% −616 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble

Ezreal40% · exp. 61% −2115 games

Yunara47% · exp. 56% −919 games

Jhin48% · exp. 55% −823 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies less than most supports

Before 14 minutes Zilean dies 2.0 times a game (average 2.6). 42% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 45% for the average support. 14% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.0deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.6)

42%involve the enemy junglerless than average (45%)

86%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (89%)

26%with no teammate nearabout average (27%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Zilean dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

Ganks: 41% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 66% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 42% in your half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average support

What kills Zilean

Kind of death

Zilean Average

Gank 42% (avg 45%)Collapse 44% (avg 44%)1-v-1 14% (avg 11%)

Who gets the kill

Zilean Average

Bot laner 41% (avg 41%)Jungler 24% (avg 25%)Support 15% (avg 15%)Mid laner 16% (avg 16%)Top laner 3% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Zilean Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 9:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Zilean; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Zilean wins fights

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your jungle

Before 14 minutes: 1.3 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.2 in your jungle. Overall 0.5 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.4 K/D 90 / 250

Their half of bot lane 1.3 K/D 83 / 66

The bot-side river 0.4 K/D 20 / 46

Your jungle 0.2 K/D 10 / 41

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 7 / 27

The top-side river 0.5 K/D 8 / 15

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Zilean wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 47% of their team's dragon takes (average support 48%). The team wins 76% when Zilean is there and 74% when not.

Leaving laneWorth knowingFirst shows up in mid lane around 11:00 (average 10:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 44%; for Zilean it is 59% against 40%.

Zilean

What most Zilean players run

Best when games end at 30–35′

Watch out for Karma, Sona, Thresh

First Baron: 89% against 40%

Fewer multikills, fewer solo kills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Karma, Sona, Thresh

Good into Rell, Lulu, Nautilus

Behind at 15 against 7 of 10, still wins 4 of them

Zilean does better than expected here

Zilean does better than expected here

Zilean does better than expected here

Zilean does better than expected here

Zilean does worse than expected here

About what you would expect

Zilean does better than expected here

Zilean does worse than expected here

Zilean does worse than expected here

Zilean does worse than expected here

Enemies that cost Zilean games: Locke, Ezreal

Teammates that change Zilean's games

Dies less than most supports

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Zilean

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your jungle

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Where fights happen