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Zilean Build

Top Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,508 gamesUpdated

54.5%win rate0.1%pick1.0%ban

Who counters Zilean

How to build Zilean

Ionian Boots of Lucidity→Shurelya's Battlesong→Seraph's Embrace→Cosmic Drive

Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Shurelya's Battlesong → Seraph's Embrace → Cosmic Drive

65.5% win rate 12% of games 84 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchInspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight17% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport58%
Skills
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Time Bomb
14578
Rewind
214151718
Time Warp
39101213
Chronoshift
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Zilean build →
54.5%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.7% over 3,613 gamesPatch 26.21: 54.5% over 1,508 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
54.4%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
1.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
46.9%under 22 min
56.1%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Zilean champion portraitT ZileanvsSylas champion portraitT Sylas
3 / 7 / 7

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Blackfire Torch

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQERWWW
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Zilean champion portraitT ZileanvsDarius champion portraitT Darius
0 / 5 / 9

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Archangel's Staff→Shurelya's Battlesong

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEEREWWW
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Zilean champion portraitT ZileanvsIllaoi champion portraitT Illaoi
0 / 3 / 3

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Blackfire Torch

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 46.3% win rate · 17% of games · 177 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 56.3% win rate · 14% of games · 142 games
SorcerySummon AeryManaflow BandTranscendenceWaterwalking
DominationCheap ShotRelentless Hunter
Shards Ability Haste · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport58%56.5%891 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite16%52.1%238 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity75%Boots of Swiftness12%Sorcerer's Shoes9%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 55.5% win rate

Zilean build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Seraph's Embrace1st
  2. Shurelya's Battlesong2nd
  3. Cosmic Drive3rd
6% of games that reach a third item take this path62.8% win rate43 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Zilean →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,515 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Item 11,515 games
Item 21,268 games
Item 3718 games

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
74% · 55.5% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
12% · 50.6% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
9% · 55.6% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Seraph's Embrace+Ionian Boots of Lucidity6% of games · 43.3% win rate · 90 games
  2. Seraph's Embrace›Cosmic Drive+Ionian Boots of Lucidity6% of games · 47.8% win rate · 90 games
  3. Seraph's Embrace›Rod of Ages+Ionian Boots of Lucidity4% of games · 50.9% win rate · 55 games
  4. Cosmic Drive›Seraph's Embrace+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 62.9% win rate · 35 games
  5. Seraph's Embrace›Shurelya's Battlesong›Cosmic Drive+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 64.5% win rate · 31 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Zilean against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Zilean's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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