Mid · 39 games · NA

Zilean

Mid · 15% of games Support · 76%Top · 9%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−634 gold), and still wins 64%.

Win rate: 64.1%; ±15.1 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #17 of 70
Pick rate: 0.6%; ban 1.6%
Games: 39; ranked solo/duo

Zilean mid wins 64.1% of 39 ranked games in NA, rank 17 of 70 mid champions (tier B). Most players finish Archangel's Staff first, at about 12:42.

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 12:12 · 87% of games

Item 1

Archangel's Staff 12:39 · 100% · 31 games

Item 2

Cosmic Drive 21:13 · 100% · 20 games

Item 3 · late game

Imperial Mandate 25:24 · 7 of 13 games

Runes

Summon Aery · Sorcery + Precision 41% of games · 56% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 97% of games · 66% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 92% of games · 61% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Time Bomb first 79% of games · 65% wins Skill orders →

When Zilean wins

Win rate by game length

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

Ends before 25′60% wins51% of games · 20

Lasts 25′ or more69% wins41% of games · 16

Lanes

No clear counters yet

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

What wins Zilean games

First tower: 90% against 37%

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

First tower 37% 90% +53

First Baron 48% 83% +36

First dragon 47% 80% +33

First blood 50% 82% +32

Rift Herald 50% 82% +32

First Voidgrubs 50% 74% +24

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, more assists

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

Fewer multikills a game0.08 against 0.77 · −90%

More assists a game11.5 against 6.2 · +85%

Fewer solo kills a game0.4 against 1.8 · −80%

Fewer control wards a game0.26 against 0.64 · −59%

Fewer deaths a game3.4 against 5.6 · −40%

About average: kill participation.

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 ~12:42

Item 2done ~20:30

Item 3done ~26:06

Item 4done ~31:42

Most common full builds

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Archangel's Staff › Cosmic Drive › Imperial Mandate 71.4%7 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

Cosmic Drive 67%6

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

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion65.8%38

Health Potion + Health Potion + Tear of the Goddess0.0%1

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~12:1267.6%34

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport61.1%36

Flash + Ignite100.0%1

Exhaust + Flash100.0%1

Skills

Max

W64.5%31

Max

E62.5%8

Start

E65.7%35

Start

Q66.7%3

Dies less than most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Zilean dies 1.5 times a game (average 2.2). 50% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 49% for the average mid laner. 34% are fair 1-v-1s.

1.5deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.2)

50%involve the enemy junglerabout average (49%)

66%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (66%)

59%with no teammate nearabout average (61%)

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 mid

Ganks: 31% in your half of mid. Collapses: 22% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 75% in your half of mid.

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 mid laner

What kills Zilean

Kind of death

Zilean Average

Gank 50% (avg 49%)Collapse 16% (avg 18%)1-v-1 34% (avg 34%)

Who gets the kill

Zilean Average

Bot laner 9% (avg 7%)Jungler 16% (avg 27%)Support 10% (avg 7%)Mid laner 60% (avg 54%)Top laner 5% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 8:00, then every minute

Zilean Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 8:00. 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

Where fights happen

Before 14 minutes: 39 kills and 58 deaths.

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 4 / 26

Their half of mid 4.3 K/D 13 / 3

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 39% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 29%). The team wins 90% when Zilean is there and 87% when not.

Zilean

What most Zilean players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First tower: 90% against 37%

Fewer multikills, more assists

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

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Zilean's games

Dies less than most mid laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Zilean

Ganks come at 8:00, then every minute

Where fights happen

Where fights happen

Where fights happen