Support · 569 games

Zilean

Support · 76% of games Top · 10%Mid · 13%

Strongest when games end at 35–40 minutes (63%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−123 gold), and still wins 52%.

Win rate: 52.4%; ±4.1 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: A; #13 of 54
Pick rate: 3.0%; ban 1.6%
Games: 569; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Zilean support wins 52.4% of 569 ranked games, rank 13 of 54 support champions (tier A). Most players finish Shurelya's Battlesong first, at about 13:36.

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 9:18 · 83% of games

Item 1

Shurelya's Battlesong 13:39 · 52% · 277 games

Item 2

Bandlepipes 21:43 · 32% · 67 games

Item 3

Imperial Mandate 28:48 · 40% · 10 games

Item 4 · late game

Locket of the Iron Solari 33:24 · 4 of 18 games

Runes

Summon Aery · Sorcery + Domination 11% of games · 55% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 96% of games · 52% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 76% of games · 52% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Time Warp first 37% of games · 57% 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′50% wins37% of games · 208

Lasts 25′ or more54% wins63% of games · 357

Lanes

Watch out for Sona, Yuumi, Blitzcrank

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

What wins Zilean games

First Baron: 87% against 36%

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

First Baron 36% 87% +52

First tower 34% 75% +41

Rift Herald 40% 71% +31

First dragon 41% 66% +25

First blood 48% 58% +10

First Voidgrubs 48% 57% +9

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 · −38%

Less damage a minute247 against 361 · −32%

Less share of team damage7% against 10% · −29%

Fewer deaths a game4.6 against 5.9 · −22%

About average: vision, gold, 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 ~13:42

Item 2done ~22:00

Item 3done ~29:06

Item 4done ~33:30

Most common full builds

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Shurelya's Battlesong › Bandlepipes › Imperial Mandate 80.0%10 games

Shurelya's Battlesong › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Locket of the Iron Solari › Knight's Vow 88.9%9 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Shurelya's Battlesong › Bandlepipes › Locket of the Iron Solari 50.0%8 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Shurelya's Battlesong › Bandlepipes › Mikael's Blessing 71.4%7 games

Locket of the Iron Solari › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Mikael's Blessing › Knight's Vow 60.0%5 games

Shurelya's Battlesong › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Imperial Mandate › Bandlepipes 50.0%4 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

Protoplasm Harness 83%6

Imperial Mandate 75%20

Knight's Vow 73%44

Locket of the Iron Solari 66%29

Shurelya's Battlesong 60%15

Bandlepipes 58%48

Mikael's Blessing 52%29

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 Potion52.2%548

Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion60.0%5

Boots + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%3

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~9:1852.9%471

Boots of Swiftness ~8:0656.9%51

Mercury's Treads ~12:3057.9%19

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal52.4%435

Exhaust + Flash49.5%99

Flash + Ignite60.0%35

Skills

Max

Q57.4%209

Max

W47.4%192

Start

E51.3%431

Start

W53.7%121

Runes · 569 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 · 51% win · 391 games

Keystones

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Inspiration · 48% win · 216 games

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36%43%

3%14%

69%50%

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69%51%

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6%43%

9%47%

4%60%

87%53%

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37%49%

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48%53%

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Most played pages

55%60 games

56%32 games

46%26 games

60%15 games

79%14 games

Hard lanes

Watch out for Sona, Yuumi, Blitzcrank

Easy lanes

Good into Nautilus, Lulu, Rell

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 11 of 18, still wins 5 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 (19)

Pantheon 78% · 9

Soraka 56% · 9

Renata Glasc 38% · 8

Lux 38% · 8

Camille 50% · 8

Zoe 38% · 8

Elise 71% · 7

Seraphine 57% · 7

Neeko 60% · 5

Swain 20% · 5

Taric 60% · 5

Fiddlesticks 50% · 4

Poppy 25% · 4

Amumu 25% · 4

Galio 50% · 4

Shen 67% · 3

Vel'Koz 33% · 3

Zyra 33% · 3

Sylas 67% · 3

Zilean vs Lulu · 53 games · Solid sample

Zilean does better than expected here

66%winsexpected 53%

−65gold at 15′average −123

+3.2minions at 10′ahead or behind

17%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.13 a game

Gold lead against Lulu Zilean's average lead

Against Lulu, Zilean is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 40% of games, and still wins 57% of those. When ahead, Zilean wins 74%.

Ahead at 15′74% wins31 games

Behind at 15′57% wins21 games

Full Zilean vs Lulu page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Zilean games: Malphite, Qiyana, Zed, Jhin

Enemy top Trouble

Malphite38% · exp. 52% −1516 games

Garen41% · exp. 53% −1117 games

Yone42% · exp. 51% −1024 games

Easier

Jayce67% · exp. 54% +1330 games

Jax67% · exp. 53% +1415 games

Gangplank59% · exp. 50% +917 games

Enemy jungle Trouble

Qiyana37% · exp. 50% −1327 games

Jarvan IV42% · exp. 55% −1226 games

Graves46% · exp. 55% −924 games

Easier

Nidalee62% · exp. 47% +1426 games

Viego64% · exp. 55% +925 games

Rengar58% · exp. 49% +919 games

Enemy mid Trouble

Zed41% · exp. 52% −1222 games

Locke47% · exp. 53% −636 games

LeBlanc44% · exp. 51% −716 games

Easier

Twisted Fate70% · exp. 47% +2223 games

Fizz56% · exp. 46% +1016 games

Yone59% · exp. 52% +722 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Jhin44% · exp. 54% −1061 games

Lucian41% · exp. 52% −1117 games

Tristana44% · exp. 51% −739 games

Easier

Draven73% · exp. 51% +2315 games

Jinx65% · exp. 51% +1431 games

Kai'Sa62% · exp. 53% +847 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 2.2 times a game (average 2.6). 41% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 47% for the average support. 13% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.2deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.6)

41%involve the enemy junglerless than average (47%)

87%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (90%)

27%with no teammate nearabout average (26%)

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: 42% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 65% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 41% 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 41% (avg 47%)Collapse 46% (avg 43%)1-v-1 13% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Zilean Average

Bot laner 42% (avg 41%)Jungler 24% (avg 25%)Support 15% (avg 14%)Mid laner 15% (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 your jungle

Before 14 minutes: 1.0 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.2 in your jungle. Overall 0.4 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 194 / 646

Their half of bot lane 1.0 K/D 198 / 201

The bot-side river 0.3 K/D 34 / 128

Your jungle 0.2 K/D 24 / 97

Their jungle 0.7 K/D 28 / 40

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 12 / 55

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 50% of their team's dragon takes (average support 48%). The team wins 71% 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 57% against 36%.

Zilean

What most Zilean players run

Best when games end at 35–40′

Watch out for Sona, Yuumi, Blitzcrank

First Baron: 87% against 36%

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, Yuumi, Blitzcrank

Good into Nautilus, Lulu, Rell

Behind at 15 against 11 of 18, still wins 5 of them

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Enemies that cost Zilean games: Malphite, Qiyana, Zed, Jhin

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 your jungle

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

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