Support · 354 games · NA

Zilean

Support · 81% of games Mid · 10%Top · 7%

Strongest when games end at 35–40 minutes (59%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−82 gold), and still wins 50%.

Win rate: 50.0%; ±5.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #29 of 56
Pick rate: 3.5%; ban 1.7%
Games: 354; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Zilean support wins 50.0% of 354 ranked games in NA, rank 29 of 56 support champions (tier B). Most players finish Shurelya's Battlesong first, at about 13:06.

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 10:12 · 80% of games

Item 1

Shurelya's Battlesong 13:11 · 55% · 183 games

Item 2

Bandlepipes 21:15 · 36% · 52 games

Item 3

Imperial Mandate 28:18 · 58% · 14 games

Item 4 · late game

Locket of the Iron Solari 34:48 · 4 of 17 games

Runes

Summon Aery · Sorcery + Domination 12% of games · 39% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 96% of games · 50% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 69% of games · 49% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Time Warp first 34% of games · 48% wins Skill orders →

When Zilean wins

Best when games end at 35–40′

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

Ends before 25′52% wins28% of games · 100

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins70% of games · 248

Lanes

Watch out for Sona, Seraphine, Janna

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

What wins Zilean games

First Baron: 82% against 32%

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

First Baron 32% 82% +50

Rift Herald 36% 72% +36

First tower 34% 68% +34

First dragon 41% 61% +20

First blood 47% 53% +6

First Voidgrubs 48% 52% +4

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 game0.04 against 0.10 · −60%

Fewer solo kills a game0.1 against 0.2 · −33%

Less damage a minute263 against 367 · −28%

Less share of team damage8% against 11% · −27%

Fewer deaths a game4.7 against 5.9 · −21%

About average: control wards, gold, kill participation, 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 ~13:30

Item 2done ~21:54

Item 3done ~29:12

Item 4done ~34:54

Most common full builds

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Shurelya's Battlesong › Bandlepipes › Imperial Mandate 71.4%14 games

Shurelya's Battlesong › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Locket of the Iron Solari › Knight's Vow 71.4%7 games

Shurelya's Battlesong › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Knight's Vow › Locket of the Iron Solari 20.0%5 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Locket of the Iron Solari › Bandlepipes › Shurelya's Battlesong 25.0%4 games

Shurelya's Battlesong › Plated Steelcaps › Bandlepipes › Locket of the Iron Solari 75.0%4 games

Shurelya's Battlesong › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Imperial Mandate › Locket of the Iron Solari 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

Knight's Vow 71%24

Locket of the Iron Solari 71%17

Cosmic Drive 67%6

Mikael's Blessing 63%16

Imperial Mandate 56%9

Shurelya's Battlesong 50%10

Bandlepipes 47%30

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 Potion49.6%341

Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion33.3%3

Health Potion + Health Potion + Control Ward50.0%2

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~10:1250.7%282

Boots of Swiftness ~9:1252.6%38

Plated Steelcaps ~14:4254.5%11

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal48.6%243

Exhaust + Flash50.0%70

Flash + Ignite58.5%41

Skills

Max

W47.9%121

Max

W46.8%109

Start

E49.8%271

Start

W38.7%62

Runes · 354 games

Laid out like the game: the most picked rune in each row is in colour. Hover or tap a rune for its name, description and numbers.

Sorcery · 48% win · 237 games

Keystones

94%48%

6%43%

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2%60%

97%47%

<1%50%

85%49%

15%43%

—

44%53%

47%45%

9%38%

Inspiration · 46% win · 123 games

<1%0%

50%43%

3%50%

74%52%

—

10%50%

56%43%

—

7%38%

14%52%

<1%67%

86%50%

61%48%

30%52%

9%56%

45%53%

<1%0%

55%48%

Most played pages

39%41 games

48%25 games

52%25 games

57%14 games

80%10 games

Hard lanes

Watch out for Sona, Seraphine, Janna

Easy lanes

Good into Lulu, Rakan, Rell

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 9 of 16, still wins 6 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 (17)

Leona 56% · 9

Soraka 56% · 9

Pyke 33% · 9

Alistar 38% · 8

Zyra 40% · 5

Galio 40% · 5

Renata Glasc 50% · 4

Taric 100% · 4

Zoe 25% · 4

Lux 50% · 4

Amumu 67% · 3

Swain 0% · 3

Sion 33% · 3

Vel'Koz 67% · 3

Camille 67% · 3

Neeko 67% · 3

Poppy 33% · 3

Zilean vs Lulu · 25 games · Fair sample

Zilean does better than expected here

68%winsexpected 52%

+282gold at 15′average −82

+3.9minions at 10′ahead or behind

12%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.04 a game

Gold lead against Lulu Zilean's average lead

Against Lulu, Zilean is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 88% of games and wins 73% of those. When behind, Zilean wins 33%.

Ahead at 15′73% wins22 games

Behind at 15′33% wins3 games

Full Zilean vs Lulu page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Zilean games: Lee Sin, Ahri, Tristana

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble

Lee Sin48% · exp. 52% −521 games

Easier

Talon53% · exp. 45% +817 games

Kha'Zix55% · exp. 49% +522 games

Enemy mid Trouble

Ahri26% · exp. 49% −2319 games

Zed35% · exp. 50% −1523 games

Easier

Viktor65% · exp. 53% +1217 games

Locke58% · exp. 51% +719 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Tristana31% · exp. 49% −1716 games

Jhin44% · exp. 53% −934 games

Ezreal50% · exp. 55% −520 games

Easier

Kai'Sa68% · exp. 51% +1725 games

Jinx66% · exp. 52% +1432 games

Lucian60% · exp. 50% +1015 games

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 2.5). 40% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 45% for the average support. 11% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.0deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.5)

40%involve the enemy junglerless than average (45%)

89%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (90%)

25%with no teammate nearabout average (25%)

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: 44% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 66% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 38% 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 40% (avg 45%)Collapse 49% (avg 45%)1-v-1 11% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Zilean Average

Bot laner 45% (avg 42%)Jungler 24% (avg 24%)Support 14% (avg 15%)Mid laner 13% (avg 15%)Top laner 3% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00–7:00, then every minute

Zilean Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 5:00. 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 the bot-side river

Before 14 minutes: 0.9 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.2 in the bot-side river. Overall 0.4 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 112 / 382

Their half of bot lane 0.9 K/D 108 / 126

The bot-side river 0.2 K/D 15 / 71

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 13 / 51

Their jungle 0.9 K/D 19 / 22

Your half of mid 0.4 K/D 8 / 22

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 54% of their team's dragon takes (average support 50%). The team wins 66% when Zilean is there and 70% when not.

Leaving laneWorth knowingFirst shows up in mid lane around 12:00 (average 11:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 52% against 44%; for Zilean it is 54% against 38%.

Zilean

What most Zilean players run

Best when games end at 35–40′

Watch out for Sona, Seraphine, Janna

First Baron: 82% against 32%

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 Sona, Seraphine, Janna

Good into Lulu, Rakan, Rell

Behind at 15 against 9 of 16, still wins 6 of them

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 better than expected here

Zilean does worse than expected here

About what you would expect

Zilean does worse 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

Zilean does better than expected here

Zilean does worse than expected here

Enemies that cost Zilean games: Lee Sin, Ahri, Tristana

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 and 5:00–7:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in the bot-side river

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

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