Katarina vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Katarina
based on 1,496 Katarina vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Zilean
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Katarina vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Katarina versus Zilean counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Zilean
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Who is Better, Katarina or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Zilean, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter for Zilean.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Zilean, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Zileanas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Katarina is a trash counter for Zilean. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically picks up more CS relative to Zilean. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Katarina versus Zilean build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Zilean as Katarina, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina vs Zilean fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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